TY - GEN
T1 - Reconstruction of Threaded Conversations in Online Discussion Forums
AU - Aumayr, Erik
AU - Chan, Jeffrey
AU - Hayes, Conor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2011, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/7/17
Y1 - 2011/7/17
N2 - Online discussion boards, or Internet forums, are a significant part of the Internet. People use Internet forums to post questions, provide advice and participate in discussions. These online conversations are represented as threads, and the conversation trees within these threads are important in understanding the behaviour of online users. Unfortunately, the reply structures of these threads are generally not publicly accessible or not maintained. Hence, in this paper, we introduce an efficient and simple approach to reconstruct the reply structure in threaded conversations. We contrast its accuracy against three baseline algorithms, and show that our algorithm can accurately recreate the in and out degree distributions of forum reply graphs built from the reconstructed reply structures.
AB - Online discussion boards, or Internet forums, are a significant part of the Internet. People use Internet forums to post questions, provide advice and participate in discussions. These online conversations are represented as threads, and the conversation trees within these threads are important in understanding the behaviour of online users. Unfortunately, the reply structures of these threads are generally not publicly accessible or not maintained. Hence, in this paper, we introduce an efficient and simple approach to reconstruct the reply structure in threaded conversations. We contrast its accuracy against three baseline algorithms, and show that our algorithm can accurately recreate the in and out degree distributions of forum reply graphs built from the reconstructed reply structures.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10379/4659
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84978111731
U2 - 10.13025/21143
DO - 10.13025/21143
M3 - Conference Publication
T3 - Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011
SP - 26
EP - 33
BT - Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011
PB - AAAI Press
T2 - 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011
Y2 - 17 July 2011 through 21 July 2011
ER -