Collaborative User Tracking for Community Organization on Blogosphere: A Case Study of eLearning@BlogGrid (original) (raw)

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The aim of this study is to recommend relevant information to users by organizing user communities on electronic learning environment. In this paper, we propose a weblog-based approach to modeling users during collaborative learning process. Thereby, we formulate user behaviors on blogosphere, e.g., posting articles, linking to neighbors, and interactions between neighbors. These user models are capable of being compared with others to quantify similarities between users. We apply co-occurrence analysis methods. In this study, we deploy BlogGrid platform to support information pushing service to students. Through our experimental results, we found out that average weighting measurement scheme with co-occurrence patterns from responding (e.g., comments and trackback) activities is the most significant patterns for information pushing on collaborative learning.

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  1. INRIA Rhône-Alpes, ZIRST 655 avenue de l’Europe, Montbonnot, 38334 cedex, Saint Ismier, France
    Jason J. Jung
  2. Intelligent E-Commerce Systems Laboratory, School of Computer and Information Engineering, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-Dong, Nam-Gu, Incheon, 402-751, Korea
    Jason J. Jung, Inay Ha, Supratip Ghose & Geun-Sik Jo

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  1. Jason J. Jung
  2. Inay Ha
  3. Supratip Ghose
  4. Geun-Sik Jo

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    Ling Feng
  2. Northeastern University,, 110004, Shenyang Liaoning, China
    Guoren Wang
  3. State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, 430072, Wuhan, P.R. China
    Cheng Zeng
  4. School of Information Management, Wuhan University, 430072, Wuhan, China
    Ruhua Huang

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Jung, J.J., Ha, I., Ghose, S., Jo, GS. (2006). Collaborative User Tracking for Community Organization on Blogosphere: A Case Study of eLearning@BlogGrid . In: Feng, L., Wang, G., Zeng, C., Huang, R. (eds) Web Information Systems – WISE 2006 Workshops. WISE 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4256. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11906070\_28

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