Abstract
We report on an investigation of using Usenet newsgroups for social filtering of Web resources. Our main empirical results are: (1) for the period of May '96 to Jul '96, about 23% of Usenet news messages mention Web resources, (2) 19% of resource mentions are recommendations (as opposed, e.g., to home pages), (3) we can automatically recognize recommendations with at least 90% accuracy, and (4) in some newsgroups, certain resources are mentioned significantly more frequently than others and thus appear to play a central role for that community. We have created a Web site that summarizes the most frequently and recently mentioned Web resources for 1400 newsgroups.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work |
| Editors | Anon |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Pages | 106-112 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| State | Published - Dec 1 1996 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1996 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW - Boston, MA, USA Duration: Nov 16 1996 → Nov 20 1996 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the 1996 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW |
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| City | Boston, MA, USA |
| Period | 11/16/96 → 11/20/96 |