Automatically collecting, monitoring, and mining japanese weblogs

We present a system that tries to automatically collect and monitor Japanese blog collections that include not only ones made with blog softwares but also ones written as normal web pages. Our approach is based on extraction of date expressions and analysis of HTML documents. Our system also extracts and mines useful information from the collected blog pages. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.4 [Information Systems]: Hypertext/Hypermedia; H.3.5 [Information Systems]: Online Information Services General Terms Management Keywords weblog, document analysis, monitoring, text mining, trend analysis

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Tomoyuki Nanno, Toshiaki Fujiki, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Manabu Okumura
• Keywords: Blog Pages, Blog Softwares, Internet Technology, Japanese Blog Collections, WWW 2004