Leveraging social media networks for classification

• Published in: Data mining and knowledge discovery Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 447 - 478
• Main Authors: Tang, Lei, Liu, Huan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.11.2011; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Advertising; Artificial Intelligence; Chemistry and Earth Sciences; Classification; Computer Science; Data mining; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Handles; Heterogeneity; Information Storage and Retrieval; Joints; Media; Networks; Physics; Social network analysis; Social networks; Social research; Statistics for Engineering; Tasks; User behavior; Relational learning; Collective inference; Social network analysis; Within-network classification; Social media

Social media has reshaped the way in which people interact with each other. The rapid development of participatory web and social networking sites like YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, also brings about many data mining opportunities and novel challenges. In particular, we focus on classification tas...