While Shopping Online Buyers mostly depend on reviews from users available on various websites. Trust is an important factor in any sort of relationship. A buyer can often see both the seller and the product, verify its quality, negotiate and bargain with the seller in traditional commerce. But in the context of online shopping, there is a absence of this face to face trust assessment. Absence ...

BACKGROUND Even though physician rating websites (PRWs) have been gaining in importance in both practice and research, little evidence is available on the association of patients' online ratings with the quality of care of physicians. It thus remains unclear whether patients should rely on these ratings when selecting a physician. The objective of this study was to measure the association betwe...

BACKGROUND Some health websites provide a public forum for consumers to post ratings and reviews on drugs. Drug reviews are easily accessible and comprehensible, unlike clinical trials and published literature. Because the public increasingly uses the Internet as a source of medical information, it is important to know whether such information is reliable. OBJECTIVE We aim to examine whether ...

This paper presents how a novel evaluation framework was used to collect translation ratings thanks to users of an online German-speaking support community in the IT domain. Using an innovative data collection approach and mechanism, this paper shows that segment-level ratings can be collected in an effective manner. The collection mechanism leverages the ACCEPT evaluation framework which allow...

AbstrAct Recommendation systems can play an extensive role in online learning. In such systems, learners can receive guidance in locating and ranking references, knowledge bits, test items, and so forth. In recom-mender systems, users' ratings can be applied toward items, users, other users' ratings, and, if allowed, raters of raters of items recursively. In this chapter, we describe an online ...