How Useful are Your Comments? Analyzing and Predicting YouTube Comments and Comment Ratings

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10
Pages891-900
Number of pages10
Publication statusPublished - 26 Apr 2010
Event19th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2010 - Raleigh, NC, United States
Duration: 26 Apr 201030 Apr 2010

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NameProceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10

Abstract

An analysis of the social video sharing platform YouTube reveals a high amount of community feedback through comments for published videos as well as through meta ratings for these comments. In this paper, we present an in-depth study of commenting and comment rating behavior on a sample of more than 6 million comments on 67,000 YouTube videos for which we analyzed dependencies between comments, views, comment ratings and topic categories. In addition, we studied the influence of sentiment expressed in comments on the ratings for these comments using the SentiWordNet thesaurus, a lexical WordNet-based resource containing sentiment annotations. Finally, to predict community acceptance for comments not yet rated, we built different classifiers for the estimation of ratings for these comments. The results of our large-scale evaluations are promising and indicate that community feedback on already rated comments can help to filter new unrated comments or suggest particularly useful but still unrated comments.

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    comment ratings, community feedback, YouTube

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How Useful are Your Comments? Analyzing and Predicting YouTube Comments and Comment Ratings. / Siersdorfer, Stefan; Chelaru, Sergiu; Nejdl, Wolfgang et al.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10. 2010. p. 891-900 (Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10).

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Siersdorfer, S, Chelaru, S, Nejdl, W & San Pedro, J 2010, How Useful are Your Comments? Analyzing and Predicting YouTube Comments and Comment Ratings. in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10, pp. 891-900, 19th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2010, Raleigh, NC, United States, 26 Apr 2010. https://doi.org/10.1145/1772690.1772781
Siersdorfer, S., Chelaru, S., Nejdl, W., & San Pedro, J. (2010). How Useful are Your Comments? Analyzing and Predicting YouTube Comments and Comment Ratings. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10 (pp. 891-900). (Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10). https://doi.org/10.1145/1772690.1772781
Siersdorfer S, Chelaru S, Nejdl W, San Pedro J. How Useful are Your Comments? Analyzing and Predicting YouTube Comments and Comment Ratings. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10. 2010. p. 891-900. (Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10). doi: 10.1145/1772690.1772781
Siersdorfer, Stefan ; Chelaru, Sergiu ; Nejdl, Wolfgang et al. / How Useful are Your Comments? Analyzing and Predicting YouTube Comments and Comment Ratings. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10. 2010. pp. 891-900 (Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10).
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