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Figure 5.
Themes Menu for Archive 1.
Figure 6.
Themes Menu for Archive 2.
Themes
Another measure of the diversity of conversation in a newsgroup is provided
by the menu of computed “discussion themes” (i.e., what in linguistics would
more properly be described as the
lexical ties
between messages). Figures 5 and
6 list the tops of the theme menus for message archives 1 and 2 respectively.
Themes in the menus of themes are ordered according to the number of arcs
in the social network that they label.
Recall that an arc in the social network connects two newsgroup partici-
pants if and only if those two participants have replied to each other or cited
