What's Worthy of Comment? Content and Comment Volume in Political Blogs

In this paper we aim to model the relationship between the text of a political blog post and the comment volume--that is, the total amount of response--that a post will receive. We seek to accurately identify which posts will attract a high-volume response, and also to gain insight about the community of readers and their interests. We design and evaluate variations on a latentvariable topic model that links text to comment volume.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICWSM
• Authors: Tae Yano, Noah A. Smith
• Keywords: ICWSM 2010, Internet Technology, Latentvariable Topic Model, Paper, Political Blog Post