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Structure Analytics in Social Media

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Aggregate analytics in social media; Exploratory mining in social media; User-generated content analysis

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Structure analytics in social media is the process of discovering the structure of the relationships emerging from social media use, by leveraging the rich metadata associated with items and users in online sites. It focuses on identifying the users involved, the activities they undertake, the actions they perform, and the items they create and interact with. Example items can be movies, restaurants, entities, and Web pages. The objective of structure analytics in social media is to identify interesting patterns in large amounts of user-generated content such as product reviews, rating, forums, and social media conversations and use that knowledge in subsequent actions. An example mining task is finding groups of reviewers who have similar feedback (such as high ratings) for similar (or diverse) sets of items (such as movies by the same director). Unlike...

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, CNRS, 700 Ave Centrale, 38000, Grenoble, France

    Sihem Amer-Yahia

  2. Visa Research, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Mahashweta Das

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA

    Gautam Das & Saravanan Thirumuruganathan

  4. Google Research, 76th 9th Ave, New York, NY, 10018, USA

    Cong Yu

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  1. Sihem Amer-Yahia
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Correspondence to Sihem Amer-Yahia .

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA

    Fatma Özcan

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Amer-Yahia, S., Das, M., Das, G., Thirumuruganathan, S., Yu, C. (2017). Structure Analytics in Social Media. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_80709-1

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