A weblog—blog, for short—is a Web site that uses a dated log format to publish periodical information. The updates are frequent, usually daily, according to the site owner's editorial purposes—or whims. Blogs contribute to Web content by linking and filtering evolving content in a structured way and by establishing interlinked com-munities—the blogosphere—connect-ing people through shared inter...

Weblogs are a source of human activity knowledge comprising valuable information such as facts, opinions and personal experiences. In this paper, we propose a method for mining personal experiences from a large set of weblogs. We define experience as knowledge embedded in a collection of activities or events which an individual or group has actually undergone. Based on an observation that exper...

Credibility is a perceived quality and is evaluated with at least two major components: trustworthiness and expertise. Weblogs (or blogs) are a potentially fruitful genre for exploration of credibility assessment due to public disclosure of information that might reveal trustworthiness and expertise by webloggers (or bloggers) and availability of audience evaluations. The objectives of the plan...

In this paper we investigate how conceptualisations can be identified in weblogs using language technology (automated text analysis). We focus on getting a handle on both the concepts bloggers use and the way they think these concepts are related. The analysis of these conceptualisations can then be applied to a single weblog, resulting in a visualisation of potential conceptualisations the blo...

The global blogging phenomenon has caught researchers by surprise. While past research has focused on the motivations behind blogging, since the number of weblogs is growing at such an unprecedented rate, the roles played by their visitors should not be overlooked. This chapter presents an empirical analysis of weblogs from a methodological perspective that demonstrates empirical advances in th...

The phenomenal rise of Internet weblogging has created new opportunities for people to tell personal stories of their life experience, and the potential to share these stories with those who can most benefit from reading them. One barrier to this new mode of storytelling is the lack of accessibility; existing Internet search tools are not tailored to the unique characteristics of this textual g...

In this position paper we present a vision of how the stories that people tell in Internet weblogs can be used directly for automated commonsense reasoning, specifically to support the core envisionment functions of event prediction, explanation, and imagination.

The article analyses the ways of implicit expression political stance bloggers. relevance topic under study is determined by increased influence non-institutional means communication on processes. Blogs, social networks, and messengers have become an important tool among members civil society, as well platforms for expressing citizens’ positions. a blogger’s position does not always occur direc...