TY - GEN
T1 - I want what I need! Analyzing subjectivity of online forum threads
AU - Biyani, Prakhar
AU - Caragea, Cornelia
AU - Singh, Amit
AU - Mitra, Prasenjit
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Online forums have become a popular source of information due to the unique nature of information they contain. Internet users use these forums to get opinions of other people on issues and to find factual answers to specific questions. Topics discussed in online forum threads can be subjective seeking personal opinions or non-subjective seeking factual information. Hence, knowing subjectivity orientation of threads would help forum search engines to satisfy user's information needs more effectively by matching the subjectivities of user's query and topics discussed in the threads in addition to lexical match between the two. We study methods to analyze the subjectivity of online forum threads. Experimental results on a popular online forum demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods.
AB - Online forums have become a popular source of information due to the unique nature of information they contain. Internet users use these forums to get opinions of other people on issues and to find factual answers to specific questions. Topics discussed in online forum threads can be subjective seeking personal opinions or non-subjective seeking factual information. Hence, knowing subjectivity orientation of threads would help forum search engines to satisfy user's information needs more effectively by matching the subjectivities of user's query and topics discussed in the threads in addition to lexical match between the two. We study methods to analyze the subjectivity of online forum threads. Experimental results on a popular online forum demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods.
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U2 - 10.1145/2396761.2398675
DO - 10.1145/2396761.2398675
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871101274
SN - 9781450311564
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 2495
EP - 2498
BT - CIKM 2012 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
T2 - 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2012
Y2 - 29 October 2012 through 2 November 2012
ER -