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Twitter has become a significant means by which people communicate with the world and describe their current activities, opinions and status in short text snippets. Tweets can be analyzed automatically in order to derive much potential information such as, interesting topics, social influence, user’s communities, etc. Community extraction within social networks has been a focus of recent work in several areas. Different from the most community discovery methods focused on the relations between users, we aim to derive user’s communities based on common topics from user’s tweets. For instance, if two users always talk about politic in their tweets, thus they can be grouped in the same community which is related to politic topic. To achieve this goal, we propose a new approach called CETD: Community Extraction based on Topic-Driven-Model. This approach combines our proposed model used to detect topics of the user’s tweets based on a semantic taxonomy together with a community extraction method based on the hierarchical clustering technique. Our experimentation on the proposed approach shows the relevant of the users communities extracted based on their common topics and domains.
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Hannachi, L., Asfari, O., Benblidia, N., Bentayeb, F., Kabachi, N., Boussaid, O. (2012). Community Extraction Based on Topic-Driven-Model for Clustering Users Tweets. In: Zhou, S., Zhang, S., Karypis, G. (eds) Advanced Data Mining and Applications. ADMA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7713. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35527-1_4
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