Hyper-community detection in the blogosphere

Most existing work on learning community structure in social network is graph-based whose links among the members are often represented as an adjacency matrix, encoding direct pairwise associations between members. In this paper, we propose a method to group online communities in blogosphere based o...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nguyen, Thin, Phung, Dinh, Adams, Brett, Tran, Truyen, Venkatesh, Svetha
Other Authors: S. Boll
Format: Conference Paper
Published: ACM 2010
Subjects:
Online Access:http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1878151.1878159
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22301
Description
Summary:Most existing work on learning community structure in social network is graph-based whose links among the members are often represented as an adjacency matrix, encoding direct pairwise associations between members. In this paper, we propose a method to group online communities in blogosphere based on the topicslearnt from the content blogged. We then consider a different type of online community formulation - the sentiment-based grouping of online communities. The problem of sentiment-based clustering for community structure discovery is rich with many interesting open aspects to be explored. We propose a novel approach foraddressing hyper-community detection based on users' sentiment. We employ a nonparametric clustering to automatically discover hidden hyper-communities and present the results obtained from a large dataset.