Applied text analytics for blogs
Gilad Mishne · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 2007
I am indebted to my advisor, Professor Maarten de Rijke, who opened the door of scientific research for me and guided my walk through a path that was at times unclear.Despite an incredibly busy schedule, Maarten always found time to discuss any issue, or to suggest final improvements to a paper; he helped me in many ways, professional and other, and gave me a much-appreciated free hand to explore new areas my way.Many thanks also to all members of the ILPS group at the University of Amsterdam for providing a great environment through many inspirational discussions and a diverse range of interests; special thanks goes to Maarten Marx, for introducing me to the group in the first place.Research on text analysis depends on access to large amounts of real-life data; I am grateful to Natalie Glance from Blogpulse.com,Greg Gershman from Blogdigger.com, and Nils Rooijmans from Ilse Media BV for providing such data.I wish to thank Susan Dumais and Doug Oard for coaching me at the SIGIR 2005 Doctoral Consortium, providing much needed context for the planned work.I was fortunate to be hosted as an intern twice during the past