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Semantic Social Networks Analysis

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Synonyms

Detection of communities; Graph mining; Knowledge engineering; Networks dynamics analysis; Semantic networks; Social trends discovery; Text mining

Glossary

Data Mining:

Extracting implicit information and knowledge from numeric data

Graph Mining:

Extracting implicit information and knowledge from graphs

Knowledge Engineering:

Discipline studying, extracting, and managing knowledge implicitly defined within digital data structures

SNA:

Social network analysis (see Definition section)

Social Capital:

Knowledge and skills owned by employees (human capital) when shared in a collaborative context and defining a network of professional interactions

SW:

Semantic Web (see Historical background section)

Text Mining:

Extracting implicit information and knowledge from text corpora

Definition

Social networks analysis (SNA) enables to figure out the position of people and communities within social networks, represented as social graphs. It defines a set of methods and measures, such as...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. French-Mexican Laboratory of Informatics and Automatic Control (LAFMIA, UMI CNRS 3175), Lyon, France

    Christophe Thovex, Ofelia Cervantes & J. Alfredo Sánchez

  2. Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

    Bénédicte LeGrand

  3. Laboratory of Computer Sciences (LINA, UMR CNRS 6241), University of Nantes, Nantes, France

    Francky Trichet

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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. TOBB Economics and Technology University, Ankara, Turkey

    Tansel Ozyer

  2. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

    Ozgur Ulusoy

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Thovex, C., LeGrand, B., Cervantes, O., Sánchez, J.A., Trichet, F. (2018). Semantic Social Networks Analysis. 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_381

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