With the accelerated growth of the blogosphere, automatically analyzing blogs (specifically extracting information) becomes increasingly important. Here, we focus on the fundamental task of automatically detecting blog topics in order to support users to explore a collection of blogs by focusing...

The detection of redundant or reused passages in texts is an important basis for various tasks including tracking of information flow, plagiarism detection, origin detection, web search and information retrieval. Being able to track the evolution of a piece of information through different...