Political Blog Analysis Using Bootstrapping Techniques
Fritz Heckel, Nick Ward · 2005
In the past few years, the form of Internet media known as “blogging” or weblogging has exploded, especially in the realm of politics. We propose and implement a system for performing qualitative text analysis of political blogs, with the ultimate goal of placing them on a map to categorize them according to political bias. Our system performed surprisingly well on the task of categorizing entire blogs, though the success is not entirely unqualified, and the system is not suitable for categorizing individual articles.