Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis for Search and Mining of Corporate Blogs
Flora S. Tsai, Yun Chen, Chan Kap Luk · Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications · 2008
Blogs, or weblogs, have rapidly gained in popularity over the past decade. Because of the huge volume of existing blog posts, information in the blogosphere is difficult to access and retrieve. Existing studies have focused on analyzing personal blogs, but few have looked at corporate blogs, the numbers of which are dramatically rising. In this paper, we use probabilistic latent semantic analysis to detect keywords from corporate blogs with respect to certain topics. We then demonstrate how this method can represent the blogosphere in terms of topics with measurable keywords, hence tracking popular conversations and topics in the blogosphere. By applying a probabilistic approach, we can improve information retrieval in blog search and keywords detection, and provide an analytical foundation for the future of corporate blog search and mining.