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International Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration
Web Community Discovery Using Personal Names
Tokyo, Japan
April 08-April 09
ISBN: 0-7695-2414-1
Kazuhiro Kazama, Kyoto University Graduate School of Informatics Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto, JAPAN
Osamu Katai, Kyoto University Graduate School of Informatics Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto, JAPAN
Shin-ya Sato, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories Midori-cho,Musashino-shi, Tokyo, JAPAN
Hiroshi Kawakami, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories Midori-cho,Musashino-shi, Tokyo, JAPAN

These days, web access is essential for our daily lives, and many communities are formed by the exchange of information. We propose a method for discovering web communities by using personal names. It extracts personal names fromsearch results that are relevant to a speci fic topic and finds appropriate web communities by analyzing the bipartite graph between personal names and websites. In general, web pages are too noisy to extract such social network structures automatically. We introduce a measure called effectiveness and extract only key people or key websites to make their bipartite graph. We also demonstrate an application called "Community Navigator" and visualize web communities for a specific topic by using it. Moreover, we analyze the measure for an actual example and show that it is suitable for selecting key people and key websites.

Citation:
Kazuhiro Kazama, Osamu Katai, Shin-ya Sato, Hiroshi Kawakami, "Web Community Discovery Using Personal Names," wiri, pp.113-121, International Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration, 2005
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