What one may say on the internet is increasingly controlled by a mix of automated programs,
and decisions made by paid and volunteer human moderators. On the popular social media …

User-generated content (UGC) on the Web, especially on social media platforms, facilitates
the association of additional information with digital resources; thus, it can provide valuable …

We study how an online community perceives the relative quality of its own user-contributed
content, which has important implications for the successful self-regulation and growth of the …

An analysis of the social video sharing platform YouTube and the news aggregator Yahoo!
News reveals the presence of vast amounts of community feedback through comments for …

We present a general algorithm which gives a uniform view of several state-of-the-art
systematic backtracking search algorithms for solving both binary and nonbinary CSP …

This article studies information retrieval tasks related to Web comments. Prerequisite of such
a study and a main contribution of the article is a unifying survey of the research field. We …

Social media, online forums, and online e-commerce heavily encourage and rely on content
posted by humans to attract visitors and enable participation in their sites. However …

The ultimate goal of classification algorithms is to achieve the best possible classification
performance for the problem at hand. Most often, classification performance is obtained by …

Over the last decade, researchers presented (semi-) automated comment moderation
systems (CMS) based on machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) …

The challenges of eliminating inadvertent hate online have grown more and more
observable. With rapid increase in access to technology worldwide, the number of people …