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From PHOAKS to TopicShop: Experiments in Social Data Mining

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We live in an age of information abundance. The Internet in particular confronts us with endless possibilities: web sites to experience, music to listen to, conversations to participate in, and every conceivable consumer item to buy. Not only are there vast numbers of possibilities, but they also vary widely in quality. People thus face a difficult information management problem: they cannot hope to evaluate all available choices by themselves unless the topic of interest is severely constrained.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW, 2007, Sydney, Australia

    Christopher Lueg Dipl-Inform, Dr. sc. nat.

  2. Information and Computer Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697-3430, USA

    Danyel Fisher BS, BA, MS

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Amento, B., Terveen, L., Hill, W. (2003). From PHOAKS to TopicShop: Experiments in Social Data Mining. In: Lueg, C., Fisher, D. (eds) From Usenet to CoWebs. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0057-7_9

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