Word usage and posting behaviors: Modeling blogs with unobtrusive data collection methods

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1125-1128

  Kramer, Adam D I ^a   Rodden, Kerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogs; Cluster Analysis; LIWC; PCA; Personas; Unobtrusive; User modeling; Word usage

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LINGUISTICS;

BLOGS; LIWC; PCA; PERSONAS; UNOBTRUSIVE; USER MODELING; WORD USAGE;

INTERNET;

EID: 57649239375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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