With the constant expansion of Web, search engines became part people’s daily routines. How users behave during process depends on a variety factors, one which is topic their interest. This study focused behavior searching Web for content related to art and cultural heritage. A proprietary, publicly available, federated engine, in form web mobile app, was developed this research’s purposes. pla...

Article history: Received 13 May 2007 Received in revised form 26 March 2008 Accepted 2 April 2008 Available online 10 April 2008 This study examines the persuasive effect and awareness effect of online user reviews on movies' daily box office performance. In contrast to earlier studies that take online user reviews as an exogenous factor, we consider reviews both influencing and influenced by ...

Subjectivity analysis has been actively used in various applications such as opinion mining of customer reviews in online review sites, question-answering in CQA sites, multi-document summarization, etc. However, there has been very little focus on subjectivity analysis in the domain of online forums. Online forums contain huge amounts of user-generated data in the form of discussions between f...

With the development of Web 2.0 technologies, online social networks are able to provide open platforms to enable the seamless sharing of profile data to enable public developers to interface and extend the social network services as applications (or APIs). At the same time, these open interfaces pose serious privacy concerns as third party applications are usually given full read access to the...

This research in progress will try to understand the relationship between user influence and status of users in an online community. For online communities a major issue is how to continue to grow and sustain the viability of the community. Oftentimes online communities will gain popularity and then lose that popularity due to stagnation in the number of new users and loss of interest by curren...

Online Software reviews are collected by different agencies to predict or analyze the user response towards the Software. It is considered as the business plan to estimate the Software response and earning. But the review is collected in the form of textual feedback that requires some intelligent automated check called Opinion analysis. In this present work, a weighted statistical approach is s...

Unmoderated electronic mailing lists suffer from the paradox that the more successful they are, the more difficult they are to use and administer because of the increasing number of users and discussions. Traditional solutions to this problem, such as creating static sublists or providing a Web interface, are not always desirable. We discuss the problems with traditional solutions and present d...