Efficient overlap and content reuse detection in blogs and online news articles

The use of blogs to track and comment on real world (political, news, entertainment) events is growing. Similarly, as more individuals start relying on the Web as their primary information source and as more traditional media outlets try reaching consumers through alternative venues, the number of news sites on the Web is also continuously increasing. Content-reuse, whether in the form of extensive quotations or content borrowing across media outlets, is very common in blogs and news entries outlets tracking the same real-world event. Knowledge about which web entries re-use content from which others can be an effective asset when organizing these entries for presentation. On the other hand, this knowledge is not cheap to acquire: considering the size of the related space web entries, it is essential that the techniques developed for identifying re-use are fast and scalable. Furthermore, the dynamic nature of blog and news entries necessitates incremental processing for reuse detectio...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Jong Wook Kim, Jun'ichi Tatemura, K. Selçuk Candan
• Keywords: Entries Re-use Content, Internet Technology, Keywords Reuse Detection, Reuse Detection, WWW 2009