Summarization Meets Visualization on Online Social Networks

TitleSummarization Meets Visualization on Online Social Networks
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsGabriel, Hans-Henning, Myra Spiliopoulou, Emmanouela Stachtiari, and Athena Vakali
EditorBoissier, Olivier, Boualem Benatallah, Mike P. Papazoglou, Zbigniew W. Ras, and Mohand-Said Hacid
Book TitleWeb Intelligence
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN Number978-0-7695-4513-4
KeywordsClustering, communities, community representatives, social network summarization, social network visualization, Social networks, visualization
Abstract

Getting an overview of a large online social networkand deciding which communities to join is a challengingtask for a new user. We propose a method that maps a largenetwork into a smaller graph with two kinds of nodes: a nodeof the first kind is representative of a community; a node ofthe second kind is neighbor to a representative and reflectsthe semantics of that community. Our approach encompassesa learning and ranking algorithm that derives this smallergraph from the original one, and a visualization algorithmthat returns a graph layout to the observer. We report on ourresults on inspecting the network of a folksonomy.

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