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    <rdfs:label><![CDATA[Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity]]></rdfs:label>
    <pub:title><![CDATA[Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity]]></pub:title>
    <pub:publishedOn rdf:datatype="&xsd;dateTime">2007-03-25T00:00:00-05:00</pub:publishedOn>
    <pub:abstract><![CDATA[The role of social networks has been well explored in
understanding how communities and individuals spread influence.
In a densely connected world where much of our communication
happens online, social media and networks have a great potential
in influencing our thoughts and actions. We describe techniques
to find "like minded" blogs based on blog-to-blog link sentiment
for a particular domain. Using simple sentiment detection
techniques, we identify the polarity (positive, negative or neutral)
of the text surrounding links that point from one blog post to
another. We use trust propagation models to spread this sentiment
from a subset of connected blogs to other blogs and deduce likeminded
blogs in the blog graph. Our results confirm that the
simple heuristics for analysis of text surrounding links and
generation of missing polar links (links with positive or negative
sentiment) using trust propagation is highly applicable for
domains having weak link structure. These techniques
demonstrate the potential of using polar links for more generic
problems such as detecting trustworthy nodes in web graphs.]]></pub:abstract>
    <pub:note><![CDATA[Short Paper, To Appear]]></pub:note>
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    <pub:tag><![CDATA[trust]]></pub:tag>
    <pub:tag><![CDATA[influence]]></pub:tag>
    <pub:tag><![CDATA[blog]]></pub:tag>
    <pub:tag><![CDATA[link polarity]]></pub:tag>
    <pub:booktitle><![CDATA[Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007)]]></pub:booktitle>
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             <rdf:first><person:MSAlumnus rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/person/html/Amit/Karandikar/"><person:name><![CDATA[Amit  Karandikar]]></person:name><rdfs:label><![CDATA[Amit  Karandikar]]></rdfs:label></person:MSAlumnus></rdf:first>
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