
Information Retrieval on the Blogosphere
now publishers Inc
1st Edition
Published on 30. July 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
138 pages
978-1-60198-568-2 (ISBN)
Description
Blogs have recently emerged as a new, open, rapidly evolving and reactive publishing medium on the Web. Rather than managed by a central entity, the content on the blogosphere the collection of all blogs on the Web is produced by millions of independent bloggers, who can write about virtually anything. This open publishing paradigm has led to a growing mass of user-generated content on the Web, which can vary tremendously both in format and quality when looked at in isolation, but which can also reveal interesting patterns when observed in aggregation. One field particularly interested in studying how information is produced, consumed, and searched in the blogosphere is information retrieval. In this survey, we review the published literature on searching the blogosphere. In particular, we describe the phenomenon of blogging and the motivations for searching for information on blogs. We cover both the search tasks underlying blog searchers information needs and the most successful approaches to these tasks. These include blog post and full blog search tasks, as well as blog-aided search tasks, such as trend and market analysis. Finally, we also describe the publicly available resources that support research on searching the blogosphere.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hanover
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
205 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60198-568-2 (9781601985682)
DOI
10.1561/1500000026
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Content
1: Introduction 2: Blog Information Retrieval 3: Blog Post Search 4: Blog Search 5: Blog-Aided Search 6: Publicly Available Resources 7: Future Work in Blog and Microblog Search. Acknowledgements. References