Matthew Smith

Brigham Young University
Computer Science, PhD
Data Mining Lab (map)

matt at smithworx dot com
Resume/CV

Research Interests

• Affinities and Social Networks
  Social Capital in Online Communities, Implicit Affinity Networks (IAN), Link Mining, Clustering, Word-of-mouth, Influence, Reality Mining (Google News)
• Social Analytics
  Social Media Measurement and Analysis (Google News)
• Business Intelligence
  Web Analytics and Statistical Methods (Google News)

Publications

• Smith, M. (2011). A Computational Framework for Social Capital in Online Communities (PDF) June 2011.
• Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C., Stephens, S. (2011). Measuring and Reasoning about Social Capital. Submitted.
• Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C., Dewey, D., Ring, S., Gore, D. (2011). Social Capital and Language Acquisition during Study Abroad. In proceedings of 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Prier, K. Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C., Hanson, C. (2011). Identifying Health-Related Topics on Twitter: An Exploration of Tobacco-Related Tweets as a Test Topic. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP11), March.
• Smith, M. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2010). Bonding vs. Bridging Social Capital: A Case Study in Twitter. International Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking (SIN-10). The Second IEEE International Conference On Social Computing (SocialCom-10), Minneapolis (USA), Aug. 20-22, 2010.
• Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C., and Purser, N. (2009). Implicit Affinity Networks and Social Capital. Information Technology and Management, 10(2-3):123-134, September.
• Smith, M. (2008). Social Capital in Online Communities. In PIKM '08: Proceeding of the 2nd PhD workshop on Information and knowledge management, pages 17-24, New York, NY, USA. ACM. (Alternate Download Location)
• Lee, J., Huang, Y., and Smith, M. (2008) Dependency Mining on the 2005-06 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Data. Washington D.C, United States, November 2008. American Medical Information Association (AMIA).
• Smith, M., Purser, N. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2008). Social Capital in the Blogosphere: A Case Study. In Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing, K. Lerman et al. (Eds.), Technical Report SS-08-06, AAAI Press, 93-97.
• Giraud-Carrier, C. and Smith, M. (2008). Web Mining: Stages of Knowledge Discovery in e-Commerce Sites. In Wang, J. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, 2nd Edition, 1830-1834.
• Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C. and Judkins, B. (2007). Implicit Affinity Networks. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, 1-6.
• Smith, M. (2007). Implicit Affinity Networks. Brigham Young University.
• Smith, M., Wenerstrom, B., Giraud-Carrier, C., Lawyer, S. and Liu, W. (2007). Personalizing e-Commerce with Data Mining. In E-Service Intelligence: Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, Lu, J., Ruan, D. and Zhang, G. (Eds.), Studies in Computation Intelligenge Series, Vol. 37, Springer, Chapter 12.
• Smith, M. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2006). Genealogical Affinity Networks. 6th Annual Workshop on Technology for Family History and Genealogical Research.
• Smith, M. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2005). Stages of Knowledge Discovery in Websites. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on E-Service Intelligence at the Eighth Joint Conference on Information Sciences.

Presentations

• A Computational Framework for Social Capital in Online Communities (PDF, Keynote). April 20, 2011.
• Leveraging Social Capital to Access Resources (PDF). March 19, 2011.
• The Web Startup Group Story (PDF) given at Social Venture SG. January, 2011.
• Social Resources (PDF) September, 2010.
• Bonding vs. Bridging SC: A Case Study in Twitter (PDF) August 21, 2010.
• Social Capital in Networks (PDF) April 19, 2010.
• Power of Public Data (PDF) April 8, 2010.
• Early Stages of Social Capital: A Twitter Case Study (PDF) March 2010.
• Social Capital in Online Communities: PhD Proposal (PDF) July 27, 2009.
• Social Capital in Online Communities: Research Overview (PDF) July 23, '09.
• Social Capital in Online Communities (PDF) given November, 2008.
• Social Capital in the Blogosphere (PDF) given March, 2008.
• Building Community around a Blog (PDF) given March, 2008.
• New research from the BYU Computer Science Department (HTML) 2007.
• Implicit Affinity Networks (PDF) given at WITS on December 8, 2007.
• IAN: Implicit Affinity Networks (PDF) given December 22, 2006.
• Genealogical Affinity Networks (PDF) given March 9, 2006.
• Stages of Knowledge Discovery in Websites (PDF) given July, 2005.
• Web Mining for Implicit User Affinities in Online Communities (PDF) 2005.