The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
Predicting students' final performance from participation in on-line discussion forums
Computers & Education
Discovering content-based behavioral roles in social networks
Decision Support Systems
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Internet forums have recently become the leading form of peer communication in the Internet. An Internet forum is a Web application for publishing user-generated content under the form of a discussion. Discussions considering particular subjects are called topics or threads. Internet forums are sometimes called Web forums, discussion boards, message boards, discussion groups, or bulletin boards. The most important feature of Internet forums is their social aspect. Many forums are active for a long period of time and attract a group of dedicated users, who build a tight social community around a forum. With great abundance of forums devoted to every possible aspect of human activity, such as politics, religion, sports, technology, entertainment, economy, fashion, and many more, users are able to find a forum that perfectly suits their needs and interests. In this paper we present a data mining model for social role discovery and attribution in Internet forum data.