Web Community Browser: a Browsing Tool of a Large Web Community Chart

Introduction

Web community is a collection of web pages created by individuals or any kind of associations that have a common interest on a specific topic. For example, a community of computer software vendors, game fans, etc. We had extracted 100 thousands communities from 40 million web pages in Japan by using link analysis technique. We also extracted relationships between the communities at the same time. We call set of communities and their relationships “Web Community Chart”. This method to extract the chart is developed byToyoda et al.

“Web Community Browser” is a tool to browse the Web Community Chart. The browser shows communities and their relationships as an indirected graph, and its layout is optimized by physics-based graph layout algorithm.

Middle panel shows the a part of the chart. Each labeled rectangle shows a community, and related communities are linked by a line. Each community has 10-20 web pages. Top 7 pages are showed by a web browser beside the main panel.

The user can dynamically edit the chart to extract the structure of the chart.

Publications

• "Web Community Browser: 大規模Webコミュニティチャートの可視化" (PDF)
  福地 健太郎, 豊田 正史, 喜連川 優: 第13回データ工学ワークショップ(DEWS2002)論文集, 2002.3
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• "Web Community Browserにおける探索機構の実装と評価" (PDF)
  福地 健太郎, 豊田 正史, 喜連川 優: 電子情報通信学会技術研究報告 Vol.102, No.209 pp. 79-84, 2002.7
• "Web Community Browser: Webコミュニティ構造の可視化と探索機構の実現" (PDF)
  福地 健太郎, 豊田 正史, 喜連川 優: 第1回情報科学技術フォーラム(FIT2002)論文集, 2002.9
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• "Web Community Browser: 大規模Webグラフ探索ツールとそのインタラクション技術" (PDF)
  福地 健太郎, 豊田 正史, 喜連川 優: 第10回インタラクティブシステムとソフトウェアに関するワークショップ(WISS 2002) 論文集 pp. 9-14, 2002.12