TY - GEN
T1 - A novel approach for social behavior analysis of the blogosphere
AU - Zafarani, Reza
AU - Jashki, Mohammad Amin
AU - Baghi, Hamidreza
AU - Ghorbani, Ali A.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The web, as a real mass medium, has become an invaluable data source for Information Extraction and Retrieval systems. Digital authoring is a relatively new style of communication, usually facilitated by computer networks and the Internet. We believe that the behavior of the people in cyberspace can be a representative of the real social behaviors and that this data can be employed to analyze the behavior of a society. In this paper we have used blogs as the main representative of this digital data. A system of blog analyzing, named Blogizer, has been designed to analyze these blogs. The system employs two specific measurements to determine the level of citizen engagement. The detailed analysis and the proof of concept case study provides promising results. Based on the obtained results, more than 70.52% of the topic assignments and 58.10% of the significance assignments were ascribed successfully.
AB - The web, as a real mass medium, has become an invaluable data source for Information Extraction and Retrieval systems. Digital authoring is a relatively new style of communication, usually facilitated by computer networks and the Internet. We believe that the behavior of the people in cyberspace can be a representative of the real social behaviors and that this data can be employed to analyze the behavior of a society. In this paper we have used blogs as the main representative of this digital data. A system of blog analyzing, named Blogizer, has been designed to analyze these blogs. The system employs two specific measurements to determine the level of citizen engagement. The detailed analysis and the proof of concept case study provides promising results. Based on the obtained results, more than 70.52% of the topic assignments and 58.10% of the significance assignments were ascribed successfully.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-68825-9_33
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-68825-9_33
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:44649160757
SN - 3540688218
SN - 9783540688211
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 356
EP - 367
BT - Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 21st Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2008, Proceedings
T2 - 21st Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2008
Y2 - 28 May 2008 through 30 May 2008
ER -