Discovering Important Bloggers Based on a Blog Thread Analysis

Shinsuke Nakajima (speaker), Junichi Tatemura, Yoichiro Hino, Yoshinori Hara, and Katsumi Tanaka

Abstract: To capture "hot" conversation topics from blogs and deliver them to users in a timely manner, we propose a method of discovering bloggers who take an important role in conversations. We characterize bloggers based on their roles in previous blog threads (a set of blog entries comprises a conversation). We discuss models of blogs and blog thread data, and methods of extracting blog threads, discovering important bloggers, and acquiring important content from their entries.

Presented by: Shinsuke Nakajima, NICT

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WWE2005