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- I'll give them a word burst or two…
Accpording to the New Scientist it might be possible to track societal change by monitoring the frequency of phrases over time.
Kleinberg suggests that the method could be applied to weblogs to track new social trends. For example, identifying word bursts in the hundreds of thousands of personal diaries now on the web could help advertisers quickly spot an emerging craze.
Well, gee whiz, who'd a thunk it?
In Misc on 20 February 2003. 6 comments. Permalink