Topic priority assignment is defined in RepLab-2013 as labelling a topic according to its level of priority (alert, mildly important or unimportant) in order to highlight topics requiring immediate attention for online reputation monitoring. Although they are strongly linked, topic detection and priority assignment have been previously treated as separate tasks. We study the impact of integrati...

We summarize the goals, organization, and results of the second RepLab competitive evaluation campaign for Online Reputation Management systems (RepLab 2013). RepLab 2013 focuses on the process of monitoring the reputation of companies and individuals, and asks participating systems to annotate different types of information on tweets containing the names of several companies. First, tweets hav...

In the classical theory of social choice, a theory developed by game-theorists and theoretical economists, we consider a set of agents (voters) and a set of alternatives. Each agent ranks the alternatives, and the major aim is to find a good way to aggregate the individual preferences into a social preference. The major tool offered in this theory is the axiomatic approach: study properties (te...

2 Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney Broadway, Australia [email protected] Abstract. The growing development of web-based reputation systems in the 21 century will have a powerful social and economic impact on both business entities and individual customers, because it makes transparent quality assessment on products and services to achieve customer assurance...

This paper devises a classification system for reputation systems based on two axes, namely: who performs the evaluation of a subject’s reputation, and how the information is collected by the reputation system. This leads to 4 possible operational models for reputation systems, termed the Voting Model, the Opinion Poll Model, the MP Model and the Research Model, each of which is then analyzed. ...

The influence of company reputation, or what is often referred to as corporate reputation on branding strategy and producing intangible asset for different industries has been researched in western countries, but there is a gap for the generalizability of findings to countries out of the United State and Europe . To establish the western researcher’s external validity of theories in other count...