creators_name: Platakis, Manolis
creators_name: Kotsakos, Dimitrios
creators_name: Gunopulos, Dimitrios
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2009-04-06 19:14:35
lastmod: 2009-04-07 14:03:14
metadata_visibility: show
title: Searching for Events in the Blogosphere
ispublished: pub
full_text_status: public
pres_type: poster
abstract: Over the last few years, blogs (web logs) have gained massive popularity and have become one of the most influential web social media in our times. Every blog post in the Blogosphere has a well defined timestamp, which is not taken into account by search engines. By conducting research regarding this feature of the Blogosphere, we can attempt to discover bursty terms and correlations between them during a time interval. We apply Kleinberg’s automaton on extracted titles of blog posts to discover bursty terms, we introduce a novel representation of a term’s burstiness evolution called State Series and we employ a Euclidean-based distance metric to discover potential correlations between terms without taking into account their context. We evaluate the results trying to match them with real life events. Finally, we propose some ideas for further evaluation techniques and future research in the field.
date: 2009-04
pagerange: 1225-1225
event_title: 18th International World Wide Web Conference
event_location: Madrid, Spain
event_dates: April 20th-24th, 2009
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
citation: Platakis, Manolis <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Platakis=3AManolis=3A=3A.html> and Kotsakos, Dimitrios <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Kotsakos=3ADimitrios=3A=3A.html> and Gunopulos, Dimitrios <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Gunopulos=3ADimitrios=3A=3A.html> (2009) Searching for Events in the Blogosphere. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain.
document_url: http://www2009.eprints.org/193/1/p1225.pdf