Discovery of latent subcommunities in a blog's readership

ACM Transactions on the Web

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Adams, Brett ^a   Phung, Dinh ^a   Venkatesh, Svetha ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affinity Propagation; Blog; Topic models; Web communities

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY PROPAGATION; BLOGOSPHERES; DATA SETS; INTERPRETABILITY; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; TOPIC MODEL; WEB COMMUNITY;

INTERNET;

BLOGS;

EID: 77955004313     PISSN: 15591131     EISSN: 1559114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1806916.1806921     Document Type: Article

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