Università della Svizzera italiana

Statistical models for the analysis of short user-generated documents : author identification for conversational documents

Inches, Giacomo ; Crestani, Fabio (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014INFO019.

In recent years short user-generated documents have been gaining popularity on the Internet and attention in the research communities. This kind of documents are generated by users of the various online services: platforms for instant messaging communication, for real-time status posting, for discussing and for writing reviews. Each of these services allows users to generate written texts...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Proximity-based approaches to blog opinion retrieval

Gerani, Shima ; Crestani, Fabio (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2012 ; 2012INFO004.

Recent years have seen the rapid growth of social media platforms that enable people to express their thoughts and perceptions on the web and share them with other users. Many people write their opinion about products, movies, people or events on blogs, forums or review sites. The so-called User Generated Content is a good source of users’ opinion and mining it can be very useful for a...