The paper presents a new method of systematically discovering relevant contextual information from the user-generated reviews and, therefore, converting the latent contextual information into the explicit representational view in order to provide better recommendations to the users when the reviews complement traditional ratings used in recommender systems. In particular, we classify all the us...

In this article I test a new graphical, interactive interface that captures both " best estimate " point‐estimates and probability distributions from non‐experts. As in the previous literature, respondents are overconfident. My innovation is to show that in contrast to the standard method of directly asking respondents to state their confidence, using my method, which induces the respondents to...

We introduce our methodology for collecting tweets and identifying event-related actionable information using key terms and inflections. The vast amount of user-generated content makes it challenging to detect relevant information. Therefore, we aim to facilitate extracting morphological, syntactic, and semantic features of a key term semiautomatically. The results of our study show that handli...

Reputation is an essential component of destination competitiveness. The analysis of UGC (“explicit” popularity) and of the engagement generated by these comments (“implicit” popularity”) is usually conducted separately. Monitoring the online performance of a destination require a more comprehensive approach, which combines the capacity to attract tourists’ reviews and to enhance potential visi...

Perkembangan teknologi telah merubah perilaku konsumen dalam mengkonsumsi media. Kegiatan Marketing PR yang dilakukan perusahaan ikut berinovasi supaya dapat diterima pesan disampaikan oleh masyarakat target audience nya. User generated content atau konten buatan pengguna muncul sebagai salah satu inovasi popular digunakan. Salah produk sukses menggunakan strategi Generated Content adalah Mitoc...

This paper describes the system design of a Translator's Workbench (TWB), built around the core concept of Translation Memory System (TMS), a method of capturing, storing and re-using translation. It examines the architectural, structural and procedural framework of the TWB with development details, including implementation essentials, to facilitate better understanding of the software system. ...

Presence is an important part of our day to day lives. Often we will have a sense of who is around us and what they are doing by the sounds of doors closing, cupboards banging, footsteps on floors, voices vaguely heard through walls, etc. In digital spaces, such as GUI desktops, presence enhances our sense of connection with geographical separate friends and colleagues. In this paper we report ...

This paper considers the creation and consumption of content on user generated content (UGC) platforms, e.g., reviews, articles, chat, videos, etc. On these platforms, users’ expectations regarding the participation of others on the site become germane to their own involvement levels. Accordingly, we develop a dynamic rational expectations equilibrium model of joint consumption and generation o...