@inproceedings{f1ee2079326d4a4e9a7bb683cf866338,
title = "An analysis of bloggers, topics and tags for a blog recommender system",
abstract = "Over the past few years the web has experienced an exponential growth in the use of weblogs or blogs, web sites containing journal-style entries presented in reverse chronological order. In this paper we provide an analysis of the type of recommendation strategy suitable for this domain. We introduce measures to characterise the blogosphere in terms of blogger and topic drift and we demonstrate how these measures can be used to construct a plausible explanation for blogger behaviour. We show that the blog domain is characterised by bloggers moving frequently from topic to topic and that blogger activity closely tracks events in the real world. We then demonstrate how tag cloud information within each cluster allows us to identify the most topic-relevant and consistent blogs in each cluster. We briefly describe how we plan to integrate this work within the SIOC1 framework.",
author = "Conor Hayes and Paolo Avesani and Uldis Bojars",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-74951-6\_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783540749509",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "1--20",
booktitle = "From Web to Social Web",
address = "Germany",
note = "Workshop on Web Mining, WebMine 2006 ; Conference date: 18-09-2006 Through 18-09-2006",
}