the invisible hands of peer reviewers play a determining role in the eventual fate of submissions to international english-medium journals. this study builds on the assumption that non-native researchers and prospective academic authors may find the whole strive for publication, and more specifically, the tough review process, less threatening if they are aware of journal reviewers’ expectation...

one of the most important issues related to knowledge discovery is the field of comment mining. opinion mining is a tool through which the opinions of people who comment about a specific issue can be evaluated in order to achieve some interesting results. this is a subset of data mining. opinion mining can be improved using the data mining algorithms. one of the important parts of opinion minin...

The invisible hands of peer reviewers play a determining role in the eventual fate of submissions to international English-medium journals. This study builds on the assumption that non-native researchers and prospective academic authors may find the whole strive for publication, and more specifically, the tough review process, less threatening if they are aware of journal reviewers’ expectation...

The principles of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) are now well-established, with a continuing flow of publications exploring various aspects of the technology. Practical applications receive rather less attention and few fully-developed instances have been described. In this paper, we review the remarks made by other authors that led us to believe that it was important to investigate what ...

The dynamics of online content popularity has attracted more and more researches in recent years. In this paper, we provide a quantitative, temporal analysis about the dynamics of online content popularity in a massive system: Sina Microblog. We use time-stamped data to investigate the impact of bursty human comment patterns on the popularity of online microblog news. Statistical results indica...

User comments are the most popular but also extremely controversial form of communication on YouTube. Their public image is very poor; users generally expect that most comments will be of little value or even in thoroughly bad taste. Nevertheless, heaps of comments continue to be posted every day. We propose an explanation for this contradiction in user attitudes and behaviour based on a new co...

Social media has become ubiquitous and important for content sharing. A typical example of how users contribute content to a social media platform is through comment threads in online articles. Unfortunately, there is an increasing prevalence of malicious activity in these threads by spammers through comment messages. The existing approaches tackling comment spam are comment-level in that they ...

In the Web 2.0 eras, the individual Internet users can also act as information providers, releasing information or making comments conveniently. However, some participants may spread irresponsible remarks or express irrelevant comments for commercial interests. This kind of socalled comment spam severely hurts the information quality. This paper tries to automatically detect comment spam throug...