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Web mining is one of the most important research issues in modern information technology. Among Web mining techniques, the Web structure mining is essential to find Web communities. A variety of mining algorithms and tools have been developed for finding Web communities. In this research, we pay attention to the HITS-based Web structure mining tool “Companion-”, which is able to provide diachronic as well as synchronic analysis of Web communities. The capability of diachronic analysis is essential, particularly when a mining tool is applied to investigate a Web community—like the gender-related community—that changes shape dramatically over time according to socio-cultural and political changes. In this paper we first observe how changes in the real world communities, i.e. organizations their members, can be reflected on the Web as changes in Web communities. Second, we analyze gender-related Web communities to discover new trends or movements that are hard to identify without a mining tool capable of diachronic analysis. Last, we investigate a case that calls for the deciphering capability of miners.
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Oyama, N., Masunaga, Y., Tachi, K. (2006). A Diachronic Analysis of Gender-Related Web Communities Using a HITS-Based Mining Tool. In: Zhou, X., Li, J., Shen, H.T., Kitsuregawa, M., Zhang, Y. (eds) Frontiers of WWW Research and Development - APWeb 2006. APWeb 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3841. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11610113_32
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