TY  - SER
AU  - Nguyen The Manh
AU  - Kurhila,Jaakko
AU  - Janecek,Paul
AU  - Vatcharaporn Esichaikul,
ED  - Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), 
TI  - Building a rating model for webblogs
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Pathum Thani, Thailand
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Blog
N1  - A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Information & Communications technologies, School of Engineering and Technology; Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2007
N2  - The number of blogs is increasing quickly. It is difficult to find blogs that are worth reading. This thesis describes an overview of some existing rating methods and some blog's characteristics, and then discusses how to design a new rating model for webblogs. The purpose of the new rating model is to compute credibility automatically for data source based on the distribution of mean rating, rater's information, and blog reader's comments given to blogs. The rating data is collected from the blog rating system and from the rated blogs through trackback systems. Statistical method is then used to convert confidence intervals of the distribution of rating means to affirm the credibility score; the AHP technique is also applied to calculate the weight of users' rating. The results of evaluation show that the new rating model could be used to detect spam in rating and reduce the impact of unknown raters in overall credibility score
UR  - http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B11131
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