{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/commentwatcher-an-open-source-web-based","title":"CommentWatcher: An Open Source Web-based platform for analyzing discussions on web forums","arxiv_id":"1504.07459","date":"2015-04-28","proceeding":null,"authors":["Marian-Andrei Rizoiu","Adrien Guille","Julien Velcin"],"abstract":"We present CommentWatcher, an open source tool aimed at analyzing discussions\non web forums. Constructed as a web platform, CommentWatcher features automatic\nmass fetching of user posts from forum on multiple sites, extracting topics,\nvisualizing the topics as an expression cloud and exploring their temporal\nevolution. The underlying social network of users is simultaneously constructed\nusing the citation relations between users and visualized as a graph structure.\nOur platform addresses the issues of the diversity and dynamics of structures\nof webpages hosting the forums by implementing a parser architecture that is\nindependent of the HTML structure of webpages. This allows easy on-the-fly\nadding of new websites. Two types of users are targeted: end users who seek to\nstudy the discussed topics and their temporal evolution, and researchers in\nneed of establishing a forum benchmark dataset and comparing the performances\nof analysis tools.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07459v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.07459v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"commentwatcher-an-open-source-web-based","repo_url":"https://github.com/andrei-rizoiu/CommentWatcher","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"commentwatcher-an-open-source-web-based","repo_url":"https://github.com/behavioral-ds/CommentWatcher","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"diversity","task_name":"Diversity"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}