System and method for social inference based on distributed social sensor system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsChing-Yung Lin, Dmitry A. Rekesh
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Abstract
A method (and system) for data acquisition includes downloading a user's sent materials from a communication data repository, analyzing the sent materials and extracting data portions that are authored by the user, generating statistical values from the extracted data, transmitting the generated statistical values to one or multiple repositories, receiving the generated statistical values on one or multiple server machines, and aggregating statistical values of multiple users.
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A method of data acquisition, said method comprising:
- downloading a user's sent materials from a communication data repository;
- analyzing the sent materials and extracting data portions that are authored by the user;
- generating statistical values from the extracted data;
- transmitting the generated statistical values to one or multiple repositories;
- receiving the generated statistical values on one or multiple server machines;
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- aggregating statistical values of multiple users,
- wherein said aggregating statistical values of multiple users comprises inferring personal expertise of each user who transmits the generated statistical values from the user's extracted data.
A distributed social sensor system implemented method for social network inference or expertise location, as executed by a processor, comprising:
- installing a software program residing on an individual user's machine for downloading the user's own sent materials from a communication data repository;
- analyzing the downloaded materials and extracting the data portions that are explicitly authored by the user;
- generating statistical values, as executed by the processor, from the explicitly extracted data;
- transmitting the generated statistical values to one or multiple social sensor server repositories;
- installing a software program residing on one or multiple social sensor server repository machines to receive the statistical values of multiple users;
- and
- aggregating the statistical values of multiple users to construct one or plural aggregated social networks, expertise inference, or social networks and expertise inference of multiple people including only users or both users and non-users,
- wherein said aggregating statistical values of multiple users comprises inferring personal expertise of each user who transmits the generated statistical values from the user's extracted data.
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