Collective Intelligence Based Computational Approach to Web Intelligence

The World Wide Web has undergone major transformation during last few years, primarily due to its newly discovered ability to harness collective intelligence of the millions of users across the world. Users are no longer only passive consumers; they are actively participating to create new and useful content and more rich & personalized Web applications. Techniques to leverage user contributions are on one hand making the Web a collective knowledge system (applications like Wikipedia), and on the other hand provide a new approach to mine the unstructured Web-content for useful inferences & new knowledge. In this paper, we have discussed how the collective intelligence phenomenon is bringing about the paradigm shift in the Web; and presented our experimental work on a social-inference oriented approach for opinion analysis on the Blogosphere.