Associated topic extraction for consumer generated media analysis

  • Authors:
  • Shinichi Nagano;Masumi Inaba;Yumiko Mizoguchi;Takahiro Kawamura

  • Affiliations:
  • Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corporation, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Japan;Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corporation, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Japan;Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corporation, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Japan;Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corporation, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Japan

  • Venue:
  • AAMAS'07/SOCASE'07 Proceedings of the 2007 AAMAS international workshop and SOCASE 2007 conference on Service-oriented computing: agents, semantics, and engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper proposes a new algorithm of associated topic extraction, which detects related topics in a collection of blog entries referring to a specified topic. It is a partial feature of our product reputation information retrieval service whose aim is to detect product names rather than general terms. The main feature of the algorithm is to evaluate how important a topic is to the collection, according to the popularity of blog entries through Trackbacks and comments. Another feature is to utilize product ontology for topic filtering, which extracts products relevant to or similar to a specified product. The paper also presents a brief evaluation of the algorithm, in comparison with TF-IDF. In respect to the evaluation, it can be concluded that the proposed algorithm can capture users' impressions of associated topics more accurately than TF-IDF.