Contents
Finding Your Way through Blogspace:
Using Semantics for Cross-Domain Blog Analysis / 1
Bettina Berendt and Roberto Navigli
An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Tagging in Blogs / 9
Christopher H. Brooks and Nancy Montanez
An Exploration of Observable Features Related to Blogger Age / 15
John D. Burger and John C. Henderson
Opinion Analysis in Document Databases / 21
Carmine Cesarano, Antonio Picariello, Diego Reforgiato,
Amelia Sagoff, V. S. Subrahmanian, and Bonnie Dorr
Using Verbs and Adjectives to Automatically Classify Blog Sentiment / 27
Paula Chesley, Bruce Vincent, Li Xu, and Rohini K. Srihari
Highlights from 12 Months of Blogs / 30
Christine Doran, John Griffith, and John Henderson
Users' Behavioral Analysis on Weblogs / 34
Tadanobu Furukawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Tomofumi Matsuzawa,
Masayuki Takeda, and Koki Uchiyama
Mining the Blogosphere for Contributors' Sentiments / 37
Boris Galitsky and Boris Kovalerchuk
Distinguishing Affective States in Weblog Posts / 40
Michel Généreux and Roger Evans
Indexing Weblogs One Post at a Time / 43
Natalie Glance
How Do Blog Gardens Grow? Language Community Correlates
with Network Diffusion and Adoption of Blogging Systems / 47
Lei Gu, Paul Johns, Thomas M. Lento, and Marc A. Smith
Collaborative and Structural Recommendation of
Friends using Weblog-based Social Network Analysis / 55
William H. Hsu, Andrew L. King, Martin
S. R. Paradesi, Tejaswi Pydimarri, and Tim Weninger
Opinion Feature Extraction Using Class Sequential Rules / 61
Minqing Hu and Bing Liu
24 Hours in the Blogosphere / 67
Matthew Hurst
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Temporal Text Mining / 73
Matthew Hurst
Automatically Linking News Articles to Blog Entries / 78
Daisuke Ikeda, Toshiaki Fujiki, and Manabu Okumura
Extracting Navigational Information from Link
Structure in Blogoshere / 83
Takashi Ishikawa and Yuu Ishikawa
Opinion Mining on the Web by Extracting
Subject-Aspect-Evaluation Relations / 86
Nozomi Kobayashi, Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, and Yuji Matsumoto
SVMs for the Blogosphere: Blog Identification and
Splog Detection / 92
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, and Anupam Joshi
Opinion Extraction, Summarization and Tracking in
News and Blog Corpora / 100
Lun-Wei Ku, Yu-Ting Liang, and Hsin-Hsi Chen
Mining Community Structure of Named
Entities from Web Pages and Blogs / 108
Xin Li, Bing Liu, and Philip S. Yu
Mapping the Structure of the American Blogosphere / 115
Jia Lin, Alex Halavis, and Bin Zhang
Newspapers vs. Blogs: Who Gets the Scoop? / 117
Levon Lloyd, Prachi Kaulgud, and Steven Skiena
Mining Web Text for Brand Associations / 125
Robert Malouf, Bradley Davidson, and Ashli Sherman
Investment and Attention in the Weblog Community / 128
Cameron A. Marlow
Searching Sentiments in Blogs / 136
Hongcheng Mi and I-Heng Mei
A Corpus-based Approach to Finding Happiness / 139
Rada Mihalcea and Hugo Liu
Capturing Global Mood Levels using Blog Posts / 145
Gilad Mishne and Maarten de Rijke
MoodViews: Tools for Blog Mood Analysis / 153
Gilad Mishne and Maarten de Rijke
Predicting Movie Sales from Blogger Sentiment / 155
Gilad Mishne and Natalie Glance
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A Preliminary Investigation into Sentiment Analysis of
Informal Political Discourse / 159
Tony Mullen and Robert Malouf
The Identity of Bloggers: Openness and Gender in
Personal Weblogs / 163
S. Nowson and J. Oberlander
A Weblog Grounded to the Real World / 168
Kosuke Numa, Hideaki Takeda, Hiroki Uematsu, Takuichi Nishimura,
Yutaka Matsuo, Masahiro Hamasaki, Noriyuki Fujimura, Keisuke Ishida, Tom Hope,
Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Satoshi Fujiyoshi, Kazuya Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nagata,
Osamu Nakagawa, and Eiji Shinbori
Towards Analysis Tools for a Multilingual Blogsphere / 176
Douglas W. Oard
Consensus and Opinions; Quality and Churn / 179
Fredrik Olsson, Jussi Karlgren, Preben Hansen, Martin Svensson,
Rickard Cöster, and Magnus Sahlgren
Domain Specific Affective Classification of Documents / 181
Sara Owsley, Sanjay Sood, and Kristian J. Hammond
Automated Blog Classification: Challenges and Pitfalls / 184
Hong Qu, Andrea La Pietra, and Sarah Poon
Assessing Credibility of Weblogs / 187
Victoria L. Rubin and Elizabeth D. Liddy
Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging / 191
Jonathan Schler, Moshe Koppel, Shlomo Argamon, and James Pennebaker
Enabling Management Oversight in Corporate Blog Space / 198
Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Robert McArthur, and Tim Mansfield
Analysing Iconic Consumer Brand Weblogs / 206
Suresh Sood, Arch G. Woodside, and Ken Miller
Are Blogs Edited? A Linguistic Survey of Italian Blogs
Using Search Engines / 211
Mirko Tavosanis
Weblogs as Market Indicators: Tracking Reactions to
Issues and Events / 214
Richard Tong and Mark Snuffin
Semantic Blogging Agents: Weblogs and Personalization
in the Semantic Web / 217
Wolfgang Woerndl, Georg Groh, and Karlheinz Toni
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Important Weblog Identification and Hot Story Summarization / 221
Yi Wu and Belle L. Tseng
Gender Classification of Weblog Authors / 228
Xiang Yan and Ling Yan
Identifying Bloggers' Residential Areas / 231
Norihito Yasuda, Tsutomu Hirao, Jun Suzuki, and Hideki Isozaki
On the Summarization of Dynamically Introduced
Information: Online Discussions and Blogs / 237
Liang Zhou and Eduard Hovy
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