Automatic identification of abstract online groups
Online abstract groups, in which members aren't explicitly connected, can be automatically identified by computer-implemented methods. The methods involve harvesting records from social media and extracting content-based and structure-based features from each record. Each record includes a social-media posting and is associated with one or more entities. Each feature is stored on a data storage device and includes a computer-readable representation of an attribute of one or more records. The methods further involve grouping records into record groups according to the features of each record. Further still the methods involve calculating an n-dimensional surface representing each record group and defining an outlier as a record having feature-based distances measured from every n-dimensional surface that exceed a threshold value. Each of the n-dimensional surfaces is described by a footprint that characterizes the respective record group as an online abstract group.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RLO1830
- Assignee:
- Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, WA)
- Patent Number(s):
- 8,700,629
- Application Number:
- 13/540,759
- OSTI ID:
- 1129185
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2012 Jul 03
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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