Journal Title
Title of Journal: Knowl Inf Syst
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Abbravation: Knowledge and Information Systems
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Publisher
Springer London
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Authors: Xiaobing Xiong Gang Zhou Xiang Niu Yongzhong Huang Ke Xu
Publish Date: 2013/03/23
Volume: 39, Issue: 3, Pages: 643-665
Abstract
In this paper we focus on the problem of community detection on Sina weibo the most popular microblogging system in China By characterizing the structure and content of microgroup community on Sina weibo in detail we observe that different from ordinary social networks the degree assortativity coefficients are negative on most microgroups In addition we find that users from the same microgroup tend to share some common attributes eg followers tags and interests extracted from their published posts Inspired by these new findings we propose a united method to remodel the network for microgroup detection while maintaining the information of link structure and user content Firstly the link direction is concerned by assigning greater weight values to more surprising links while the content similarity is measured by the Jaccard coefficient of common features and interest similarity based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation model Then both link direction and content similarity between two users are uniformly converted to the edge weight of a new remodeled network which is undirected and weighted Finally multiple frequently used community detection algorithms that support weighted networks could be employed Extensive experiments on realworld social networks show that both link structure and user content play almost equally important roles in microgroup detection on Sina weibo Our method outperforms the traditional methods with average accuracy improvement up to 39 and the number of unrecognized users decreased by about 75 We thank anonymous reviewers for their useful comments and suggestions This work was partially supported by the fund of open project from the State Key Lab of Software Development Environment China No SKLSDE2011KF06 the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China 863 Program No 2012AA011005 and the State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing China Part of this research was done when the first author visited the State Key Lab of Software Development Environment Beihang University China We would like to thank Dr Jichang Zhao Dr Xu Feng and Dr Xiao Liang for their encouragement and support
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