Construction of a Portal Site for Gender Studies using a Diachronic Analysis Method of Web Communities

Web挖掘是现代信息技术中最重要的研究课题之一。在Web挖掘技术中，Web结构挖掘是发现Web社区的关键。已经开发了各种挖掘算法和工具来寻找Web社区。在本研究中，我们关注了基于HITS的Web结构挖掘工具“Companion”，该工具能够提供对Web社区的历时和共时分析。历时分析的能力是必不可少的，特别是当挖掘工具被应用到调查的网络社区，如性别相关的社区，随着时间的推移，根据社会文化和政治的变化，形状发生了巨大的变化。在这项研究中，我们首先观察了真实的世界社区的变化，即组织及其成员的变化，如何反映在Web上的Web社区的变化。其次，我们分析了与性别相关的网络社区，以发现新的趋势或运动，这些趋势或运动很难被识别出来。 关于我们 使用能够进行历时分析的挖掘工具。最后，我们调查了一个需要矿工破译能力的案例。基于以上研究结果，我们在御茶水大学性别研究所建立了“性别研究门户网站”，通过分析以“性别”为关键词的Web社区，试图获得仅在Web上才能观察到的社会性别现象的新概念。使用Companion-作为Web挖掘工具，本研究考察了通过搜索词“ender”提取的与性别相关的社区的发展。“这种方法使我们能够从主观和客观上审查性别社区，事实上，看到了一个迄今为止没有意识到的现象。此外，由于性别问题专家对网络社区的发展过程进行了彻底审查，本分析就其结论的意义而言提供了一个积极的例子。换句话说，我们能够验证纹理化的显示器，乍一看似乎毫无意义，通过特定领域专家的眼睛，成为一个至关重要和具有挑战性的空间。该研究具体展示了与特定领域的研究人员合作的有效性和影响，这些研究人员熟悉促进开发适当的Web挖掘工具的内容的现实。与研究人员的这种对话只会使分析工具更加复杂。如果挖掘工具的功能得到改进，肯定有可能从其分析中找到更有趣的结果。同时，我们也警告说，如果不认真考虑分析工具的特定倾向或特征，考试研究可能会有缺陷。对“分析工具”本身的反思对于这种检查总是必要的。少

Web mining is one of the most important research issues in modern information technology. Among Web mining techniques, the Web structure mining is essential to find Web communities. A variety of mining algorithms and tools have been developed for finding Web communities. In this research, we paid attention to the HITS-based Web structure mining tool "Companion", which was able to provide diachronic as well as synchronic analysis of Web communities. The capability of diachronic analysis was essential, particularly when a mining tool was applied to investigate a Web community-like the gender-related community-that changes shape dramatically over time according to socio-cultural and political changes. In this research we first observed how changes in the real world communities, i.e. organizations their members, could be reflected on the Web as changes in Web communities. Second, we analyzed gender-related Web communities to discover new trends or movements that were hard to identify witho … More ut a mining tool capable of diachronic analysis. Last, we investigated a case that calls for the deciphering capability of miners. Based on the above results, we constructed a "portal site for gender studies" in the Institute for Gender Studies of Ochanomizu University.By analyzing the Web communities constructed around the keyword "gender" on the Web, we have attempted to gain new conceptions of societal gender phenomena, available for observation only on the Web. Using Companion- as a Web mining tool, the research examines the development of genderrelated communities extracted through the search term "ender." This method enabled us to examine the gender communities subjectively as well as objectively, and in fact, to perceive a heretofore unrealized phenomenon. Plus, since the developmental process of the Web communities was examined thoroughly by gender specialists, the present analysis provided a positive example in terms of the meaningful nature of its findings. In other words, we were able to verify that the texturized displays, which seem nonsense at first glance, become a vital and challenging space to be deciphered (=analyzed) through the eyes of specialists of a particular field. The research concretely demonstrates the effectiveness and impact of collaborating with researchers of specific fields who are familiar with the reality of the contents in facilitating the development of appropriate Web mining tools. This kind of dialog with researchers can only make the analysis tool more sophisticated. If the functions of the mining tools improve, there is certainly the possibility of finding even more interesting types of results from their analyses. Simultaneously, we have cautioned that if particular tendencies or characteristics of the analysis tool are not seriously considered, the examination research may be flawed. Reflection upon the "analysis tool" itself is always necessary for such examinations. Less