An integrated method for social network extraction

A social network can become bases for information infrastructure in the future. It is important to extract social networks that are not biased. Providing a simple means for users to register their social relation is also important. We propose a method that combines various approaches to extract social networks. Especially, three kinds of networks are extracted; user-registered Know link network, Web-mined Web link network, and face-to-face Touch link network. In this paper, the combination of social network extraction for communities is described, and the analysis on the extracted social networks is shown. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4.m [Information Systems]: Miscellaneous; D.2 [Software]: Software Engineering General Terms Algorithms, Experimentation Keywords social network, Web mining, user interaction

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Tom Hope, Takuichi Nishimura, Hideaki Takeda
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Keywords Social Network, Social Network Extraction, Social Networks, WWW 2006