Using web crawlers for feature extraction of social nets for analysis

This paper presents a crawler based feature extraction technique for social network analysis. This technique crawl a predefined actor and his associated activities in social network space. From the activities, a set of features are extracted that can be used for a broad spectrum of social network an...

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Main Authors: Noor, Fozia, Shah, Asadullah, Gill, Waris, Ahmad Khan, Shoab
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
English
Published: Springer Verlag 2018
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/64755/
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Summary:This paper presents a crawler based feature extraction technique for social network analysis. This technique crawl a predefined actor and his associated activities in social network space. From the activities, a set of features are extracted that can be used for a broad spectrum of social network analysis. The utility can act as a middle ware providing a level of abstraction to researchers involved in social network analysis. The tools provide a formatted set of ready features with open APIs that can be easily integrated in any application. © Springer International Publishing AG 2018.