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 discussion of influential bloggers. The key advantage of the proposed approach is its ability to automatically detect events which are important in the blogger community. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010.
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Kumar, S., Zafarani, R., Abbasi, M. A., Barbier, G., & Liu, H. (2010). Convergence of influential bloggers for topic discovery in the blogosphere. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6007 LNCS, pp. 406–412). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12079-4_51
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