Research & Technology

Sysomos' products are built on a strong technology foundation based on extensive research done at the University of Toronto. Our patent-pending core technology consists of:

• real-time content aggregation
• a four-step spam filtering process
• an accurate sentiment engine
• robust geo-demographic information
• sophisticated text analytics and language processing algorithms

Articles and papers written by members of Sysomos' technical staff, research collaborators at the University of Toronto, and other research institutions have appeared in many leading publications and forums. Some recent publications and technical whitepapers include:

Information Cascades in the Blogosphere: A Look Behind the Curtain
To appear in the 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009
San Jose, California USA, May 17-20, 2009

Efficient Identification of Starters and Followers in Social Media
12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2009
St. Petersburg, Russia, Mar 23-26, 2009

Query by Document
2nd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2009
Barcelona, Spain, Feb 9-12, 2009

Ad-Hoc Aggregations of Ranked Lists in the Presence of Hierarchies
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2008
Vancouver, Canada, June 9-12, 2008

Seeking Stable Clusters in the Blogosphere
33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2007
Vienna, Austria, Sept 23-28, 2007

BlogScope: A System for Online Analysis of High Volume Text Streams
33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2007
Vienna, Austria, Sept 23-28, 2007

Searching the Blogosphere
10th International Workshop on Web and Databases, WebDB 2007
Beijing, China, June 15, 2007.

BlogScope: Spatio-temporal Analysis of the Blogosphere
16th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2007
Banff, Canada, May 8-12, 2007