User Clustering in Micro-Blogging Social Networks Using Topic Modeling Algorithms

In this dissertation,Twitter is selected as a representative of micro blogging social networks. Users can be linked with each other through the following and follower features in Twitter. This study tends to defined a new methodology to characterize users of micro-blogging social networks based on t...

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Main Author: Dolatabadi, Hossein
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spelling my-mmu-ep.36402012-11-23T07:34:59Z User Clustering in Micro-Blogging Social Networks Using Topic Modeling Algorithms 2012-05 Dolatabadi, Hossein HM Sociology In this dissertation,Twitter is selected as a representative of micro blogging social networks. Users can be linked with each other through the following and follower features in Twitter. This study tends to defined a new methodology to characterize users of micro-blogging social networks based on the contents of their tweets. Such study will verify if the follower and following features,provided by Twitter,can be used as accurate grouping of users with similar interests. Besides,the outcome of the proposed framework also can be applied for different purposes,such as target marketing on specific group of users with a set of topics in their tweets. 2012-05 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/3640/ http://vlib.mmu.edu.my/diglib/login/dlusr/login.php masters Multimedia University Faculty of Information Technology
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Dolatabadi, Hossein
User Clustering in Micro-Blogging Social Networks Using Topic Modeling Algorithms
description In this dissertation,Twitter is selected as a representative of micro blogging social networks. Users can be linked with each other through the following and follower features in Twitter. This study tends to defined a new methodology to characterize users of micro-blogging social networks based on the contents of their tweets. Such study will verify if the follower and following features,provided by Twitter,can be used as accurate grouping of users with similar interests. Besides,the outcome of the proposed framework also can be applied for different purposes,such as target marketing on specific group of users with a set of topics in their tweets.
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author Dolatabadi, Hossein
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author_sort Dolatabadi, Hossein
title User Clustering in Micro-Blogging Social Networks Using Topic Modeling Algorithms
title_short User Clustering in Micro-Blogging Social Networks Using Topic Modeling Algorithms
title_full User Clustering in Micro-Blogging Social Networks Using Topic Modeling Algorithms
title_fullStr User Clustering in Micro-Blogging Social Networks Using Topic Modeling Algorithms
title_full_unstemmed User Clustering in Micro-Blogging Social Networks Using Topic Modeling Algorithms
title_sort user clustering in micro-blogging social networks using topic modeling algorithms
granting_institution Multimedia University
granting_department Faculty of Information Technology
publishDate 2012
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