Opinion Evolution Model Based on the Node Influence on the Internet

Blog post opinion retrieval aims at finding blog posts that are relevant and opinionated about a user's query. In this paper we propose a simple probabilistic model for assigning relevant opinion scores to documents. The key problem is how to capture ...

The enormous amount of user-generated data available on the Web provides a great opportunity to understand, analyze, and exploit people’s opinions on different topics. Traditional Information Retrieval methods consider the relevance of documents to a ...

Mining various hot discussed topics and corresponding opinions from different groups of people in social media (e.g., Twitter) is very useful. For example, a decision maker in a company wants to know how different groups of people (customers, staff, ...