Blogging is a popular way of expressing opinions and discussing topics. Bloggers demonstrate different levels of commitment and most interesting are influential bloggers. Around such bloggers, the groups are forming, which concentrate users sharing similar interests. Finding such bloggers is an important task and has many applications e.g. marketing, business, politics. Influential ones affect others which is related to the process of diffusion. However, there is no objective way to telling which blogger is more influential. Therefore, researchers take into consideration different criteria to assess bloggers (e.g. SNA centrality measures). In this paper we propose new, efficient method for influential bloggers discovery which is based on relation of commenting in blogger's thread and is defined on bloggers level. Next, we compare results with other, comparative method proposed by Agarwal et al. called iFinder which is based on links between posts.
翻译:博客是一种表达观点和讨论话题的流行方式。博客表现出不同程度的承诺,最有趣的是有影响力的博客。在这些博客中,各团体正在形成,这些团体将用户集中在一起,共同关注类似的利益。找到这些博客是一项重要的任务,有许多应用,如营销、商业、政治等。有影响力的博客影响到与传播过程相关的其他人。然而,没有客观的方法可以告诉哪个博客更有影响力。因此,研究人员考虑不同的评估博客的标准(例如国民帐户体系核心措施 ) 。在本文中,我们提出了有影响力的博客发现的新的有效方法,该方法基于在博客线索中发表评论的关系,并定义在博客层面。接下来,我们将结果与Agarwal et al. iFinder提出的基于文章之间联系的其他比较方法进行比较。