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2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'03)
Mining Social Network of Conference Participants from the Web
Halifax, Canada
October 13-October 17
ISBN: 0-7695-1932-6
Yutaka Matsuo, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Hironori Tomobe, University of Tokyo
Kôiti Hasida, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Mitsuru Ishizuka, University of Tokyo
In a ubiquitous computing environment, it is desirable to provide a user with information depending on a user?s situation, such as time, location, user behavior, and social context. At conventions, such as academic conferences and exhibitions, where participants must register in advance, the social context of participants can be extracted from the Web using their names and af.liations without asking the participants many questions. In this paper, we attempt to extract the social network of participants from the Web, where a node represents a participant and an edge represents the relationship of two participants. Each edge is added using the number of pages retrieved by a search engine which include both participants names. Moreover, each edge has a label such as "co-authors" and "members of the same project" by applying classi.cation rules to the page content. We show an example of the extracted network and make a preliminary evaluation. This network can be used in many information services, such as finding an appropriate introducer or negotiater, and who one should talk to in order to efficiently expand his/her network.
Citation:
Yutaka Matsuo, Hironori Tomobe, Kôiti Hasida, Mitsuru Ishizuka, "Mining Social Network of Conference Participants from the Web," wi, pp.190, 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'03), 2003
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