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We present our work on automatically extracting social hierarchies from electronic communication data. Data mining based on user behavior can be leveraged to analyze and catalog patterns of communications between entities to rank relationships. The advantage is that the analysis can be done in an automatic fashion and can adopt itself to organizational changes over time.
We illustrate the algorithms over real world data using the Enron corporation’s email archive. The results show great promise when compared to the corporations work chart and judicial proceeding analyzing the major players.
This work is based on an earlier work: Automated Social Hierarchy Detection through Email Network Analysis in Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis© ACM, 2007. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1348549.1348562
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Creamer, G., Rowe, R., Hershkop, S., Stolfo, S.J. (2009). Segmentation and Automated Social Hierarchy Detection through Email Network Analysis. In: Zhang, H., et al. Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis. SNAKDD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00528-2_3
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