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Sunday, May 21, 2006

Access to knowledge in blogs

Gilad Mishne, Information Access Challenges in the Blogspace, a paper to be presented at the International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access (Helsinki, July 6-8, 2006). (Thanks to ResourceShelf.)
Abstract: This paper discusses the blogging phenomenon from an information access point of view. We examine blogs as a source of knowledge, analyzing the properties which make them unique as a data collection. We outline information analysis tasks aimed at blogs, and discuss how the properties of blogs are used in this context; finally, we point out some of the main aims of current computational blog research.