Gordon, A., Swanson, R.
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
(3/31/2008)
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The phenomenal rise of Internet weblogging has created
new opportunities for people to tell personal stories of their
life experience, and the potential to share these stories with
those who can most benefit from reading them. One barrier
to this new mode of storytelling is the lack of accessibility;
existing Internet search tools are not tailored to the unique
characteristics of this textual genre. In this paper we
describe our efforts to develop a search engine specifically
for the stories that appear in Internet weblogs, called
StoryUpgrade. This application utilizes statistical text
classification technologies to separate story content from
other text in weblog entries, and facilitates searches for
stories that are related to particular activities of interest.
