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Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia archive
Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia table of contents

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

POSTER SESSION: Posters table of contents

Pages 227-228

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-59593-985-2

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Tad Hogg	HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Gabor Szabo	HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA

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SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Web sites where users create and rate content as well as form links display many long-tailed distributions. Using one such site, Essembly, we propose causal mechanisms to explain these behaviors. Unlike purely descriptive models, our mechanisms use only information available to each user. We find the long-tails arise from large diversity of user activity and qualities of the rated content. The models not only explain overall behavior but also allow estimating the qualities of users and content from their early history on the site.

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