Personal Homepages

Subgroup Discovery among Personal Homepages

This paper discusses our algorithm for finding subgroups among personal homepages. Assuming that personal homepages usually carry personal information, we have developed an algorithm that allows us to automatically find potential patterns from them. For example, when the algorithm is applied to personal homepages at some school, we can approximate the ratio between the number of students intere...

Between Altruism and Narcissism: An Action Theoretical Approach of Personal Homepages Devoted to Existential Meaning

This article aims to examine existential meaning constructions from an action theoretical perspective in a specific Internet environment: the personal homepage. Personal homepages are on-line multi-media documents addressing the question ‘Who am I?’ Authors of personal homepages provide information on both their personal and public identity. These identity constructions sometimes include reflec...

Click Here if You Want to Know Who I Am: Deixis in Personal Homepages

Personal Homepages (HPs) belong to an emerging genre. Confronted with a kind of text which is still rather undefined, whose form and content are not freed and to which they haven ‘t had exposure before, authors of HPs tend to take as their model other personal HPs, thus ultimately participating in the conventionalization of a genre. By examining the system of deictic elements that can be found ...

Researcher affiliation extraction from homepages

Our paper discusses the potential use of Web Content Mining techniques for gathering scientific social information from the homepages of researchers. We will introduce our system which seeks [affiliation, position, start year, end year] information tuples on these homepages along with preliminary experimental results. We believe that the lessons learnt from these experiments may be useful for f...

Selbstdarstellung und Persönlichkeit auf privaten Homepages