Community profiling for social media
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsHongxia Jin, Yan Liu, Wenjun Zhou
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention relate to modeling communities associated with groups of data items. Tools are provided to iteratively assign data items to communities and to update topic and participant distribution in the assigned communities. As the distributions are updated, the characteristics of the communities are updated. Each activity area is defined from the perspective of a single user. Participants in a community are connected to a user, but not necessarily to each other. The combination of formations of communities and the statistical aspect of evaluating characteristics of the communities provides a multi-facetted organization of connections between data items and associated participants.
Claims8
A method, comprising:
- initializing a plurality of communities, each community being a defined grouping of interconnected participants and having at least one topic and at least two participants;
- interatively assigning a received communication into one of the communities;
- in response to the assignment of the received communication, updating a statistical distribution of topics and a statistical distribution of participants in each of the communities, and iteratively updating a topic assignment for each word from the assigned communication;
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- profiling each of the communities based on the updated statistical distribution of topics and participants.
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