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Akshay Java
Researcher at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Publications - 36
Citations - 4426
Akshay Java is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The author has contributed to research in topics: Blogosphere & Social media. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 36 publications receiving 4311 citations. Previous affiliations of Akshay Java include Princeton University & Microsoft.
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Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities
TL;DR: It is found that people use microblogging to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information and the user intentions associated at a community level are analyzed to show how users with similar intentions connect with each other.
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Why We Twitter: An Analysis of a Microblogging Community
TL;DR: It is found that people use microblogging primarily to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information and that users with similar intentions connect with each other.
Modeling the Spread of Influence on the Blogosphere
TL;DR: This paper validate the effectiveness of some of the influence models on the blogosphere, and shows how PageRank based heuristics could be used to select an influential set of bloggers such that the authors could maximize the spread of information on theBlogosphere.
The ICWSM 2009 Spinn3r Dataset
TL;DR: The dataset, provided by Spinn3r.com, is a set of 44 million blog posts made between August 1st and October 1st, 2008, which spans a number of big news events as well as everything else you might expect to find posted to blogs.
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Detecting spam blogs: a machine learning approach
TL;DR: It is discussed how SVM models based on local and link-based features can be used to detect splogs and an evaluation of learned models and their utility to blog search engines; systems that employ techniques differing from those of conventional web search engines.