Community discovering method

• Main Authors: MA LIXIANG, YU QIN, MAO YUMING, LI DINGWEI
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 16.01.2013
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

The invention discloses a community discovering method which comprises the following steps of: analyzing the information of each user, extracting a feature word from the information, and calculating a feature vector corresponding to the user; calculating the similarity of other users with the user in a mode that one user is taken as the reference; enabling a user with the similarity higher than a threshold as a similar user, combining all similar users as a new user, recording the combined similar users as a sub-user of a new user, and calculating and simplifying the feature vector of the new user; and accomplishing the discovery of new communities till the new user achieves a set community discovery threshold. According to the method, the community division is carried out according to the multi-attribute similarity of users without depending on the community behaviors of the users, users with the similar interests, research directions and behavior manners can be organized in one community once a social netwo