Skews and Blews
Microsoft Research will present another interesting research project at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2008 (ICWSM). Blews (blogs and news) is a another tool to visualize blog topics in the political part of the blogosphere. Therefore it categorizes and visualizes blog topics according to their reception in the conservative and liberal blogospheres. It visualizes information about which stories are linked to from conservative and liberal blogs, and it indicates the level of emotional charge in the discussion of the news story or topic at hand in both political camps. The data is aggregated in real time from Live Microsoft Labs Social Media platform and consist of a link analysis and text analysis of political blog posts.
I am very interested to read how the authors of the paper define the emotional charge of a discussion.
Below you find the schematic overview of the software architecture.
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