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Blog Ranking Based on Bloggers’ Knowledge Level for Providing Credible Information

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With the huge increase of recently popular user-generated content on the Web, searching for credible information has become progressively difficult. In this paper, we focus on blogs, one kind of user-generated content, and propose a credibility-focused blog ranking method based on bloggers’ knowledge level. This method calculates knowledge scores for bloggers and ranks blog entries based on bloggers’ knowledge level. Bloggers’ knowledge level is evaluated based on their usage of domain-specific words in their past blog entries. A blogger is given multiple scores with respect to various topic areas. In our method, blog entries written by knowledgeable bloggers have higher rankings than those written by common bloggers. Additionally, our system can present multiple ranking lists of blog entries from the perspectives of different bloggers’ groups. This allows users to estimate the trustworthiness of blog contents from multiple aspects. We built a prototype of the proposed system, and our experimental evaluation showed that our method could effectively rank bloggers and blog entries.

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  1. Kyoto Sangyo University,  

    Shinsuke Nakajima & Jianwei Zhang

  2. kizasi Company, Inc,  

    Yoichi Inagaki, Tomoaki Kusano & Reyn Nakamoto

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  1. European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Münster,, Leonardo Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, School of Engineering, University of California, 95064, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Darrell D. E. Long

  3. Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, William M. W. Mong Engineering Building, Shatin, N. T.,, Hong Kong, China

    Jeffrey Xu Yu

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Nakajima, S., Zhang, J., Inagaki, Y., Kusano, T., Nakamoto, R. (2009). Blog Ranking Based on Bloggers’ Knowledge Level for Providing Credible Information. In: Vossen, G., Long, D.D.E., Yu, J.X. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2009. WISE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5802. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04409-0_26

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