SugarCube: quantification of topic propagation in the blogosphere using percolation theory

Ali Azimi Bolourian; Yashar Moshfeghi; C. J. van Rijsbergen

doi:10.1145/1571941.1572128

SugarCube: quantification of topic propagation in the blogosphere using percolation theory

Ali Azimi Bolourian, Yashar Moshfeghi, C. J. van Rijsbergen

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Abstract

Blogs facilitate online debates and discussions for millions of people around the world. Identifying the most popular and prevailing topics discussed in the Blogosphere is a crucial task. This poster describes our novel approach to the quantification of the level of topic propagation in the Blogosphere. Our model uses graph-theoretic representations of the Blogosphere’s link structures that allows it to deduce the ‘Percolation Threshold’, which is then used in the quantification and definition of a global topic. The result of our experiments on a blog collection shows that our model is able to quantify the propagation of topics. Moreover, our model is successful in identifying specific topics that propagate throughout the Blogosphere and classifies them as ‘Global’.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 32nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Place of Publication	New York
Pages	786-787
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572128
Publication status	Published - 19 Jul 2009
Event	32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - Boston, United States Duration: 19 Jul 2009 → 23 Jul 2009

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Conference	32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	19/07/09 → 23/07/09

Keywords

topic propagation
social networks
citation analysis
percolation theory

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Azimi Bolourian, A, Moshfeghi, Y & van Rijsbergen, CJ 2009, SugarCube: quantification of topic propagation in the blogosphere using percolation theory. in Proceedings of the 32nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York, pp. 786-787, 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 19/07/09. https://doi.org/10.1145/1571941.1572128

SugarCube: quantification of topic propagation in the blogosphere using percolation theory. / Azimi Bolourian, Ali; Moshfeghi, Yashar; van Rijsbergen, C. J.
Proceedings of the 32nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York, 2009. p. 786-787.

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