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Semantic Social Networks

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Synonyms

Context networks; Ontologies; Taxonomies; Text networks; Topic networks

Glossary

Semantic network:

Structured representations of knowledge that are used for reasoning and inference

RDF:

Resource Description Framework

FOAF:

Friend of a friend

NLP:

Natural language processing

Definition

Semantic social network analysis combines the collection and examination of connections between social agents and the content produced or shared in the network. Representations of the content are either attached to the nodes (e.g., if the nodes in the network are Web sites) or to the edges (e.g., if the edges in the network are e-mails). Network structure is then derived from similarity in the content exchanged or from similarity in content between the nodes. Analysis happens mostly on the word level through natural language processing techniques, and statistical approaches to comparing combinations of characters and words are also popular.

Introduction

Semantic networks represent the...

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  1. Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Peter Gloor

  2. School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

    Jana Diesner

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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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    Talel Abdessalem

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Gatineau, QC, Canada

    Rokia Missaoui

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Gloor, P., Diesner, J. (2018). Semantic Social Networks. 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_90

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