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FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

2014

Information Retrieval

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Mining The Online Social Network Data: Influence, Summarization, And Organization, Jingxuan Li Mar 2014

Mining The Online Social Network Data: Influence, Summarization, And Organization, Jingxuan Li

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Online Social Network (OSN) services provided by Internet companies bring people together to chat, share the information, and enjoy the information. Meanwhile, huge amounts of data are generated by those services (they can be regarded as the social media ) every day, every hour, even every minute, and every second. Currently, researchers are interested in analyzing the OSN data, extracting interesting patterns from it, and applying those patterns to real-world applications. However, due to the large-scale property of the OSN data, it is difficult to effectively analyze it.

This dissertation focuses on applying data mining and information retrieval techniques to …