Title: Tracking and modelling information diffusion across interactive online media

Authors: Arno Scharl, Albert Weichselbraun, Wei Liu

Addresses: Department of New Media Technology, MODUL University Vienna, Austria. ' Department of Applied Computer Science, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria. ' School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Abstract: Information spreads rapidly across websites and other online media. The IDIOM research project analyses this process by identifying redundant content elements, mapping them to ontology concepts, and tracking their temporal and geographic distribution. Linguists define |idiom| as an expression whose meaning is different from the literal meanings of its component words. Similarly, investigating information diffusion promises insights that cannot be inferred from individual network elements. Previous research often focused on particular media, or neglected important aspects of the human language. IDIOM addresses these gaps to reveal fundamental mechanisms of information diffusion across media with distinct interactive characteristics.

Keywords: information diffusion; ontology extension; natural language processing; interactive media; online media; websites; tracking.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2007.016807

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2007 Vol.2 No.2, pp.136 - 145

Published online: 23 Jan 2008 *

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