
Social Network Analysis of Authority in the Blogosphere and its Application
Monday, June 3, 2013Darko OBRADOVIC (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
Blogs are among the first social media sources in the Web 2.0, and they remain influential until today, with a broad coverage of topics and languages. Due to their decentralised structure, sampling of data and network analyses are different from online social networking sites. We present a possible method and evaluation for identifying and measuring authoritative blogs with SNA, using k-cores, random graphs and community identification.
These results are then applied in a prototype tool for the monitoring of specific topics, in combination with text-based subtopic detection, polarity classification and a trend detection.
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