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...

Blogs are probably most associated with the high profile postings of a few highly popular bloggers who debate or comment on major news stories, but for each ‘A-lister’ there are numerous faceless bloggers who write about their own daily lives and/or interests. Hence it is interesting to investigate the extent to which an event with extensive media coverage, such as the London attacks, is reflec...