Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Xavier Llorà, Noriko Imafuji Yasui, Michael Welge, David E. Goldberg (2006)
TR No.: 2006023 | Download PDF | Download PS

Abstract:
Blogging has become a new and disruptive communication medium. Blogs
have changed the way people and organizations express, interact,
and—quite unforeseen—exercise influence. The digital nature of
the blog media provides access to an always-expanding corpus of
information. It would take more than a lifetime to read all the
available blogs necessary to answer questions such as what were the
more relevant plots suggested or what key concepts were managed by
bloggers in their ideas. However, human-centered analysis and
visualization techniques may help users navigate such enormous
corpus. This paper presents human-centered analysis and visualization
techniques for supporting innovation and creativity can help to
identify relevant post portions and to visualize concept relations in
the blogosphere.