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Social Network Extraction: A Review of Automatic Techniques

by Tasleem Arif, Rashid Ali, M. Asger
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 95 - Number 1
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Tasleem Arif, Rashid Ali, M. Asger
10.5120/16558-3964

Tasleem Arif, Rashid Ali, M. Asger . Social Network Extraction: A Review of Automatic Techniques. International Journal of Computer Applications. 95, 1 ( June 2014), 16-22. DOI=10.5120/16558-3964

@article{ 10.5120/16558-3964,
author = { Tasleem Arif, Rashid Ali, M. Asger },
title = { Social Network Extraction: A Review of Automatic Techniques },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { June 2014 },
volume = { 95 },
number = { 1 },
month = { June },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 16-22 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume95/number1/16558-3964/ },
doi = { 10.5120/16558-3964 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Tasleem Arif
%A Rashid Ali
%A M. Asger
%T Social Network Extraction: A Review of Automatic Techniques
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 95
%N 1
%P 16-22
%D 2014
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

The advent of Web 2. 0 has been instrumental in paradigm shift of how people communicate? These communications are a rich source of relationship data. Analyzing such a vast amount of relationship data is not a trivial task. Social Network Analysis is a promising field of research to take advantage of this huge pool of relationship data. But before this data is analyzed from Social Network Analysis perspective, Social Networks have to be extracted from this data. Social network extraction deals with the extraction of online social networks from a wide variety of online resources. These resources include web documents, e-mail communication, Internet relay chats, web usage logs, event logs, instant messenger logs, online blogs etc. Social network extraction is beneficial for many Web mining and social network applications such as expert finding for research guidance, potential speakers and contributors for conferences, journals, workshops, product recommendation, targeted advertising etc. In the last decade, many efforts have been made in the area of social network extraction. As a result, a good number of social network extraction methods have been proposed in the literature. These social network extraction methods use different sources for social network extraction. Some of these systems also use data from more than one resource. Although there are some social network extraction methods which construct a social network manually and as such cannot be considered in this work, as we deal with automatic methods only. In this paper, we classify automatic methods for social network extraction on the basis of information source they use. We also outline a general framework for social network extraction and give some future directions.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Social Network Social Networks Extraction Data Mining Link Analysis Information Source.