In this paper we address the task of finding topically relevant email messages in public discussion lists. We make two important observations. First, email messages are not isolated, but are part of a larger online environment. This context, existing on different levels, can be incorporated into the retrieval model. We explore the use of thread, mailing list, and community content levels, by ex...

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This article argues that in informational capitalism, the notion of class should not be confined to capital as one class and wage labor as the other class. The notion of class needs to be expanded to include everybody who creates and recreates spaces of common experience, such as user-generated content on the Internet, through their practices. These spaces and experiences are appropriated and t...

Social media now plays a pivotal role in electoral campaigns. Rapid dissemination of information through platforms such as Twitter has enabled politicians to broadcast their message to a wide audience. In this paper, we investigated the sentiment of tweets by the two main presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, along with almost 2.9 million tweets by Twitter users during the ...

This 2008 revision fixes numerous broken web links as well as addressing other minor latent flaws in the original content. The 2008 version is being transitioned into being a general purpose reference research paper. Changes in the document's original content have been minimised, so as to retain as much as possible of the research paper in its original form.

In today’s Age of Participation, co-creation, user-generated content and social networking have become part of a mass-appeal digital lifestyle. This paper discusses potential implications for contemporary and future media art in the context of the stage. It reflects on why and how interactive performances could give consideration to this Zeitgeist of empowered spectatorship and, moreover, propo...

The impact of user-generated content (UGC), especially negative UGC on enterprises is well recognized. From the perspective of enterprises, different strategies of enterprise-generated content (EGC) have also been adapted to response to the unexpected UGC, but few studies have investigated the influence of such strategies on the UGC propagation. This research examines which strategy on the nega...

Description The need for quick-turnaround, high-volume machine translation (MT) projects continues to grow in the localization industry. There is a wide range of quality requirements not only across different clients, but often within a single client across different content types (sales & marketing materials, user-generated content, website content, user manuals, etc.). Most clients have style...

Sentiment extraction from user-generated online content to predict stock price movements has become an active research field. This paper gives an overview of common approaches to this topic and analyzes the content generated by the financial social network Seekingalpha.com. The first finding is that a large proportion of users’ attention is focused on only a few stocks. Regarding these stocks i...