METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DISCOVERING CENTRAL MEMBER OF DIALOGUE IN BLOG COMMUNITY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To discover a member who is the center of a dialogue in a small-scale community characteristic of blogs created based on users' communication activities such as comments and trackbacks.

SOLUTION: Information about each blog is obtained and stored in a blog information storage means. Based on information about the blogs, the characteristic amount of each blog is calculated. Using the characteristic amount of each blog, a determination is made as to whether or not each blog is the central member of a dialogue. The result determined is stored in a determination result storage means in association with each blog.

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