Mining User Generated Content

Introduction
Mining of User Generated Content and Its Applications Marie-Francine Moens, Juanzi Li, and Tat-Seng Chua
The Web and Web Trends
Defining User Generated Content
A Brief History of Creating, Searching and Mining User Generated Content
Goals of the Book
User Generated Content: Concepts and Bottlenecks
Organization of the Book
Mining User Generated Content: Broader Context

Mining Different Media
Social Annotation Jia Chen, Shenghua Bao, Haofen Wang, and Yong Yu
Research on Social Annotations
Techniques in Social Annotations
Application of Social Annotations

Sentiment Analysis in UGC Ning Yu
Introduction
Background
Major Issues in Sentiment Analysis

Mining User Generated Data for Music Information Retrieval Markus Schedl, Mohamed Sordo, Noam Koenigstein, and Udi Weinsberg
Introduction to Music Information Retrieval
Web Pages
Microblogs
Explicit User Ratings
Peer-to-Peer Networks
Social Tags
Social Networks
Conclusions

Graph and Network Pattern Mining Jan Ramon, Constantin Comendant, Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani, and Yuyi Wang
Introduction
Basic Concepts
Transactional Graph Pattern Mining
Single Network Mining
Concluding Remarks
Additional Reading
Glossary

Mining and Searching Different Types of UGC
Knowledge Extraction from Wiki/BBS/Blogs/News Websites Jun Zhao, Kang Liu, Guangyou Zhou, Xianpei Han, Zhenyu Qi, and Yang Liu
Introduction
Entity Recognition and Expansion
Relation Extraction
Named Entity Disambiguation
Conclusion

User Generated Content Search Roi Blanco, Manuel Eduardo Ares Brea, and Christina Lioma
Introduction
Overview of State of the Art
Social Tags for Query Expansion
Conclusions

Annotating Japanese Blogs with Syntactic and Affective Information Michal Ptaszynski, Yoshio Momouchi, Jacek Maciejewski, Pawel Dybala, Rafal Rzepka, and Kenji Araki
Introduction
Related Research
YACIS Corpus Compilation
YACIS Corpus Annotation
Applications
Discussion
Conclusions and Future Work

Applications
Question Answering of UGC Chin-Yew Lin
Introduction
Question Answering by Searching Questions?
Question Search
Question Quality, Answer Quality, and User Expertise
Summary

Summarization of UGC Dominic Rout and Kalina Bontcheva
Introduction
Automatic Text Summarization: A Brief Overview
Why Is User Generated Content a Challenge?
Text Summarization of UGC
Structured, Sentiment-Based Summarization of UGC
Keyword-based Summarization of UGC
Visual Summarization of UGC
Evaluating UGC Summaries
Outstanding Challenges
Summary

Recommender Systems Claudio Lucchese, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Raffaele Perego, and Fabrizio Silvestri
Recommendation Techniques
Exploiting Query Logs for Recommending Related Queries
Exploiting Photo Sharing and Wikipedia for Touristic Recommendations
Exploiting Twitter and Wikipedia for News Recommendation
Recommender Systems for Tags
Conclusions

Conclusions and a Roadmap for Future Developments Marie-Francine Moens, Juanzi Li, and Tat-Seng Chua
Summary of the Main Findings
Roadmap

Biography

Marie-Francine Moens, Juanzi Li, Tat-Seng Chua

"This book is timely in collating the experiences and progress in the user-generated content (UGC) area. … this book is contemporary and provides insights into the UGC work in a comprehensible way. It will be well appreciated by researchers, academicians, and practitioners."
—Computing Reviews, June 2015