Cross-lingual blog analysis based on multilingual blog distillation from multilingual wikipedia entries

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to cross-lingually analyze multilingual blogs collected with a topic keyword. The framework of collecting multilingual blogs with a topic keyword is designed as the blog distillation (feed search) procedure. Mulitlingual queries for retrieving blog feeds are created from Wikipedia entries. Finally, we cross-lingually and cross-culturally compare less well known facts and opinions that are closely related to a given topic. Preliminary evaluation results support the effectiveness of the proposed framework. Copyright © 2008, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.