Making sense of "Syndicated Collaboration" (ResearchIndex): "Abstract: This paper discusses the phenomenon of "syndicated collaboration", which is the collaborative use of weblogs, wikis and news aggregator tools, enabled by open standard protocols like Rich Site Summary (RSS). Existing development trends and the collaborative potential of RSS-based technologies are analysed. The widespread use of these technologies indicates a shift from traditional groupware technologies towards an environment of loosely-coupled tools connecting continuously evolving communities ..."
A Unified Abstraction for Messaging on the Semantic Web (ResearchIndex): "Abstract: Since its inception, the Internet has been a hotbed of several successful communications channels, starting off with e-mail, Internet Relay Chat and Usenet newsgroups and more recently adding Web annotation, instant messaging, and news feeds. However, these channels were developed fairly independently, and in many cases their respective functionalities have grown to overlap significantly."
Mining the Peanut Gallery: Opinion Extraction and Semantic Classification of Product Reviews (ResearchIndex): "Abstract: The web contains a wealth of product reviews, but sifting through them is a daunting task. Ideally, an opinion mining tool would process a set of search results for a given item, generating a list of product attributes (quality, features, etc.) and aggregating opinions about each of them (poor, mixed, good). We begin by identifying the unique properties of this problem and develop a method for automatically distinguishing between positive and negative reviews."
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