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Convergence of Influential Bloggers for Topic Discovery in the Blogosphere
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2010
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12079-4_51
fatcat:7ci6nhr5uvbl5exwgtjo4v2awi