This paper presents an approach for detecting promotional content in Wikipedia. By incorporating stylometric features, including features based on n-gram and PCFG language models, we demonstrate improved accuracy at identifying promotional articles, compared to using only lexical information and metafeatures.

C rooms, recommendation sites, and customer review sections allow consumers to overcome geographic boundaries and to communicate based on mutual interests. However, marketers also have incentives to supply promotional chat or reviews in order to influence the consumers’ evaluation of their products. Moreover, firms can disguise their promotion as consumer recommendations due to the anonymity af...

Monads, proposed by Moggi [16] of their use in structuring denotational descriptions and then popularized by Wadler[21], are becoming an increasingly important tool for structural functional programming[8, 10, 11]. The reason is that monads provide a uniform framework for describing a wide range of programming language features including, for example, state, I/O, continuations, exceptions, pars...

This paper investigates equilibrium strategies for both horizontal (HJP) and vertical (VJP) joint promotions (cooperative advertising) in the supply chain. A game theoretic model is solved for two setups: a centralized channel competing with a decentralized one (DC), and two competing decentralized channels (DD). Retailers decide of HJP and regular promotional efforts, as well as of prices. Man...

This paper reports on the design and the effectiveness of a five-minute IS promotional talk that is used in one of the leading Australian universities to promote IS courses to existing accounting students. In particular, this paper explains in details the elements that were employed by the promotional talk to stimulate accounting students’ interest in IS courses and shaping their perception tow...

How limitations are acknowledged and discussed has a profound impact on the extent research is evaluated accepted by its intended readers. However, little attention been drawn to presentation of in EAP literature. This study seeks remedy oversight exploring how this discursive practice mediated metadiscourse, rhetorically contextualized much these rhetorical investments differ between PhD disse...