Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3477743, abstract = {There is a growing interest in social network analysis to explore how communities and individuals spread influence. We describe techniques to find "like minded" blogs based on blog-to-blog link sentiment for a particular domain. Using simple sentiment detection techniques, we identify the polarity (positive, negative or neutral) of the text surrounding links that point from one blog post to another. We use trust propagation models to spread this sentiment from a subset of connected blogs to other blogs and deduce like-minded blogs in the blog graph. Our techniques demonstrate the potential of using polar links for more generic problems such as detecting trustworthy nodes in web graphs.}, author = {Kale, Anubhav and Karandikar, Amit and Kolari, Pranam and Java, Akshay and Finin, Tim and Joshi, Anupam}, citeulike-article-id = {3477743}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.icwsm.org/papers/3--Kale-Karandikar-Kolari-Java-Finin-Joshi.pdf}, journal = {International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)}, keywords = {blogosphere, influence, signed\_graph, trust}, posted-at = {2008-11-04 07:26:15}, priority = {0}, title = {Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity}, url = {http://www.icwsm.org/papers/3--Kale-Karandikar-Kolari-Java-Finin-Joshi.pdf}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3477743 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3477743 N2 - There is a growing interest in social network analysis to explore how communities and individuals spread influence. We describe techniques to find "like minded" blogs based on blog-to-blog link sentiment for a particular domain. Using simple sentiment detection techniques, we identify the polarity (positive, negative or neutral) of the text surrounding links that point from one blog post to another. We use trust propagation models to spread this sentiment from a subset of connected blogs to other blogs and deduce like-minded blogs in the blog graph. Our techniques demonstrate the potential of using polar links for more generic problems such as detecting trustworthy nodes in web graphs. JF - International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) TI - Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity KW - blogosphere KW - influence KW - signed_graph KW - trust AU - Kale, Anubhav AU - Karandikar, Amit AU - Kolari, Pranam AU - Java, Akshay AU - Finin, Tim AU - Joshi, Anupam PY - 2007/// UR - http://www.icwsm.org/papers/3--Kale-Karandikar-Kolari-Java-Finin-Joshi.pdf ER -