Early prediction of movie box office success based on Wikipedia activity big data

M Mestyán, T Yasseri, J Kertész - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Use of socially generated “big data” to access information about collective states of the
minds in human societies has become a new paradigm in the emerging field of …

Temporal information retrieval

N Kanhabua, A Anand - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The study of temporal dynamics and its impact can be framed within the so-called temporal
IR approaches, which explain how user behavior, document content and scale vary with …

The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemic

M Tizzoni, A Panisson, D Paolotti… - PLoS computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In recent years, many studies have drawn attention to the important role of collective
awareness and human behaviour during epidemic outbreaks. A number of modelling efforts …

News coverage, digital activism, and geographical saliency: A case study of refugee camps and volunteered geographical information

R Mahabir, A Croitoru, A Crooks, P Agouris… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The last several decades have witnessed a shift in the way in which news is delivered and
consumed by users. With the growth and advancements in mobile technologies, the Internet …

Terms over LOAD: leveraging named entities for cross-document extraction and summarization of events

A Spitz, M Gertz - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Real world events, such as historic incidents, typically contain both spatial and temporal
aspects and involve a specific group of persons. This is reflected in the descriptions of …

What triggers human remembering of events? A large-scale analysis of catalysts for collective memory in Wikipedia

N Kanhabua, TN Nguyen… - IEEE/ACM Joint …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Going beyond its role as an encyclopedia, Wikipedia becomes a global memory place for
high-impact events, such as, natural disasters and manmade incidents, thus influencing …

A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia

D Rama, T Piccardi, M Redi, R Schifanella - EPJ Data Science, 2022 - epjds.epj.org
Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited
sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add …

Templates and Trust-o-meters: Towards a widely deployable indicator of trust in Wikipedia

A Kuznetsov, M Novotny, J Klein… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The success of Wikipedia and other user-generated content communities has been driven
by the openness of recruiting volunteers globally, but this openness has also led to a …

Content selection and curation for web archiving: The gatekeepers vs. the masses

I Milligan, N Ruest, J Lin - Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Any preservation effort must begin with an assessment of what content to preserve, and web
archiving is no different. There have historically been two answers to the question" what …

Noise traders and smart money: Evidence from online searches

F Hervé, M Zouaoui, B Belvaux - Economic Modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
Traditional finance theory considers that the impact of noise traders' attention on asset prices
is offset by attention from smart investors. This paper uses online search data to study the …