Incorporating Text Analysis into Evolution of Social Groups in Blogosphere

Abstract—Data reflecting social and business relations has often form of network of connections between entities (called social network). In such network important and influential users can be identified as well as groups of strongly connected users. Finding such groups and observing their evolution becomes an increasingly important research problem. One of the significant problems is to develop method incorporating not only information about connections between entities but also information obtained from text written by the users. Method presented in this paper combine social network analysis and text mining in order to understand groups evolution. I