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Using Text Similarity to Detect Social Interactions not Captured by Formal Reply Mechanisms
Samuel Barbosa, Roberto M. Cesar-Jr, Dan Cosley
In modeling social interaction online, it is important to understand when people are reacting to each other. Many systems have explicit indicators of replies, such as threading in…
Averaging Gone Wrong: Using Time-Aware Analyses to Better Understand Behavior
Samuel Barbosa, Dan Cosley, Amit Sharma +1
Online communities provide a fertile ground for analyzing people's behavior and improving our understanding of social processes. Because both people and communities change over tim…
Distinguishing between Personal Preferences and Social Influence in Online Activity Feeds
Amit Sharma, Dan Cosley
Many online social networks thrive on automatic sharing of friends' activities to a user through activity feeds, which may influence the user's next actions. However, identifying s…
Predictability of Popularity: Gaps between Prediction and Understanding
Benjamin Shulman, Amit Sharma, Dan Cosley
Can we predict the future popularity of a song, movie or tweet? Recent work suggests that although it may be hard to predict an item's popularity when it is first introduced, peeki…