Convergence of influential bloggers for topic discovery in the blogosphere

Shamanth Kumar; Reza Zafarani; Mohammad Ali Abbasi; Geoffrey Barbier; Huan Liu

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12079-4_51

Convergence of influential bloggers for topic discovery in the blogosphere

Shamanth Kumar, Reza Zafarani, Mohammad Ali Abbasi, Geoffrey Barbier, Huan Liu

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to automatically detect "hot" or important topics of discussion in the blogosphere. The proposed approach is based on analyzing the activity of influential bloggers to determine specific points in time when there is a convergence amongst the influential bloggers in terms of their topic of discussion. The tool BlogTrackers, is used to identify influential bloggers and the Normalized Google Distance is used to define the similarity amongst the topics of discussion of influential bloggers. The key advantage of the proposed approach is its ability to automatically detect events which are important in the blogger community.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Advances in Social Computing - Third International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2010, Proceedings
Pages	406-412
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12079-4_51
State	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	3rd International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2010 - Bethesda, MD, United States Duration: Mar 30 2010 → Mar 31 2010

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	6007 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Other

Other	3rd International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	Bethesda, MD
Period	3/30/10 → 3/31/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Kumar, S., Zafarani, R., Abbasi, M. A., Barbier, G., & Liu, H. (2010). Convergence of influential bloggers for topic discovery in the blogosphere. In Advances in Social Computing - Third International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2010, Proceedings (pp. 406-412). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6007 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12079-4_51

Convergence of influential bloggers for topic discovery in the blogosphere. / Kumar, Shamanth; Zafarani, Reza; Abbasi, Mohammad Ali et al.
Advances in Social Computing - Third International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2010, Proceedings. 2010. p. 406-412 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6007 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Entry/Poem › Conference contribution

Kumar, S, Zafarani, R, Abbasi, MA, Barbier, G & Liu, H 2010, Convergence of influential bloggers for topic discovery in the blogosphere. in Advances in Social Computing - Third International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2010, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 6007 LNCS, pp. 406-412, 3rd International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2010, Bethesda, MD, United States, 3/30/10. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12079-4_51

Kumar S, Zafarani R, Abbasi MA, Barbier G, Liu H. Convergence of influential bloggers for topic discovery in the blogosphere. In Advances in Social Computing - Third International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2010, Proceedings. 2010. p. 406-412. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-12079-4_51

Kumar, Shamanth ; Zafarani, Reza ; Abbasi, Mohammad Ali et al. / Convergence of influential bloggers for topic discovery in the blogosphere. Advances in Social Computing - Third International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2010, Proceedings. 2010. pp. 406-412 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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