Keywords Frequency Trend Analysis of Online Novels

The authors are interested in online novel services as a user-generated media on the Web. A large number of novels are being uploaded, and a few novels become major. Novel writers like to create novel of current popular genre, then current popular genre words may frequently appear. In this paper, the authors apply the time series analysis to the keywords words given to an online novel by the creator. The authors construct a trend analysis tool. The tool not only shows the trend of posted query word(s), but also shows the trends of similar terms. This paper describes the trend analysis system, the used data, and some interesting analyses.