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Still-nascent as an Internet phenomenon, blogs have paved the way for the resurrection of the world's oldest form of marketing: word-of-mouth. Firms are realizing that including promotional messages in the blog content itself may be an effective way to market their products, in …

This dissertation engages the question of, "What can the online encyclopedia Wikipedia teach us about the future of information gathering?" with three case studies that investigate how routine duties of journalism are exercised on current events articles on Wikipedia, which many…

Spelling correction is a well-established NLP application, but the quality for English spelling correction tends to be significantly higher than for other languages. One significant issue for minority languages in NLP is the availability of specialized corpora for various tasks.…

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a genre with a long history and several well-established assumptions. Scholarship and journalism about Wikipedia often consider the ways it carries forward, diverges from, or takes to an extreme the various qualities commonly ascribed to encyclopedi…