Vibrant online communities are in constant flux. As members join and depart, the
interactional norms evolve, stimulating further changes to the membership and its social …

Over the years, online marketing has grown in importance in the tourism industry. This
media space offers companies throughout the tourism value system numerous marketing …

History of mental illness is a major factor behind suicide risk and ideation. However research
efforts toward characterizing and forecasting this risk is limited due to the paucity of …

Building conversational agents that can conduct natural and prolonged conversations has
been a major technical and design challenge, especially for community-facing …

User contributions in the form of posts, comments, and votes are essential to the success of
online communities. However, allowing user participation also invites undesirable behavior …

Abstract This Special Issue commemorates the 50th anniversary of communication
accommodation theory (CAT) in 2023, formerly known as speech accommodation theory …

Tweets are the most up-to-date and inclusive stream of in-formation and commentary on
current events, but they are also fragmented and noisy, motivating the need for systems that …

We present a data-driven approach to generating responses to Twitter status posts, based
on phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation. We find that mapping conversational …

Current social media research mainly focuses on temporal trends of the information flow and
on the topology of the social graph that facilitates the propagation of information. In this …

Conversational participants tend to immediately and unconsciously adapt to each other's
language styles: a speaker will even adjust the number of articles and other function words …