Really simple syndication (RSS) is becoming a ubiquitous technology for notifying users of new content in frequently updated web sites, such as blogs and news portals. This paper describes a feature-based, local clustering approach for generating overview timelines for major events, such as the...

We focus on the statistics of word occurrences and of the waiting times between such occurrences in Blogs. Due to the heterogeneity of words’ frequencies, the empirical analysis is performed by studying classes of “frequently-equivalent” words, i.e. by grouping words depending on their...