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2011
Springer

Structural link analysis and prediction in microblogs

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Structural link analysis and prediction in microblogs
With hundreds of millions of participants, social media services have become commonplace. Unlike a traditional social network service, a microblogging network like Twitter is a hybrid network, combining aspects of both social networks and information networks. Understanding the structure of such hybrid networks and predicting new links are important for many tasks such as friend recommendation, community detection, and modeling network growth. We note that the link prediction problem in a hybrid network is different from previously studied networks. Unlike the information networks and traditional online social networks, the structures in a hybrid network are more complicated and informative. We compare most popular and recent methods and principles for link prediction and recommendation. Finally we propose a novel structure-based personalized link prediction model and compare its predictive performance against many fundamental and popular link prediction methods on real-world data fro...
Dawei Yin, Liangjie Hong, Brian D. Davison
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Updated 13 Dec 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where CIKM
Authors Dawei Yin, Liangjie Hong, Brian D. Davison
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