Content-Based Social Network Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Paola Velardi;Roberto Navigli;Alessandro Cucchiarelli;Mirco Curzi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy. e-mail: velardi@di.uniroma1.it;Department of Computer Science, University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy. e-mail: navigli@di.uniroma1.it;Department of Computer Science, Management and Automation (DIIGA), Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. e-mail: cucchiarelli@diiga.univpm.it;Department of Computer Science, Management and Automation (DIIGA), Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. e-mail: curzi@diiga.univpm.it

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Relationships among actors in traditional social network analysis are modelled as a function of the quantity of relations (co-authorships, business relations, friendship, etc.). In contrast, within a business, social or research community, network analysts are interested in the communicative content exchanged by the community members, not merely in the number of relationships. In order to meet this need, this paper presents a novel social network model, in which the actors are not simply represented through the intensity of their mutual relationships, but also through the analysis and evolution of their shared interests. Text mining and clustering techniques are used to capture the content of communication and to identify the most popular topics.