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Combining Link and Content for Community Detection

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Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining

Synonyms

Clustering; Graph partitioning; Information fusion

Glossary

Community detection:

Finding the communities in a network

Community:

A subset of nodes in the network that are densely connected and have similar attributes

Content analysis:

Using the attribute information to detect the communities

EM algorithm:

An iterative method for finding maximum likelihood or maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimates of parameters in statistical model

Generative model:

A model for randomly generating observable data given some hidden parameters

Link analysis:

Using the link information to detect the communities

Network:

A set of nodes that are connected by relationships

Definition

In the contexture of networks, community structure refers to the occurrence of groups of nodes in a network that are more densely connected internally than with the rest of the network. When it comes to networked data (namely, a network of nodes with each described by a number of attributes), the task of community...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Machine Learning Lab, GE Global Research, San Ramon, CA, USA

    Tianbao Yang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Rong Jin

  3. NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA

    Yun Chi & Shenghuo Zhu

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Huan Liu

  2. Chief Data Scientist, Clari Inc., 94086, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

    Lei Tang

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Yang, T., Jin, R., Chi, Y., Zhu, S. (2018). Combining Link and Content for Community Detection. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_214

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