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Learning Social Networks from Web Documents Using Support Vector Classifiers
Hong Kong, China December 18-December 22
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WI.2006.1092006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Confe ...
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Masoud Makrehchi, University of Waterloo, Canada
Mohamed S. Kamel, University of Waterloo, Canada
Automatic generation of a social network requires extracting pair-wise relations of the individuals. In this research, Learning social network from incomplete relationship data is proposed. It is assumed that only a small subset of relations between the individuals is known. With this assumption, the social network extraction is translated into a text classification problem. The relations between two individuals are modeled by merging their document vectors and the given relations are used as labels of training data. By this transformation, a text classifier such as SVM is used for learning the unknown relations. We show that there is a link between the intrinsic sparsity of social networks and class distribution imbalance of the training data. In order to re-balance the unbalanced training data, a minority class down-sampling strategy is employed. The proposed framework is applied to a true FOAF (Friend Of A Friend) database and evaluated by the macro-averaged F-measure.
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Masoud Makrehchi, Mohamed S. Kamel, "Learning Social Networks from Web Documents Using Support Vector Classifiers," wi, pp.88-94, 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06), 2006
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