[ACM Press the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop - San Jose, California (2007.08.12-2007.08.12)] Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis - WebKDD/SNA-KDD '07 - DBconnect

✍ Scribed by Zaiane, Osmar R.; Chen, Jiyang; Goebel, Randy

• Book ID: 115455805
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2007
• Weight: 596 KB
• Volume: 0
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1595938486
• DOI: 10.1145/1348549.1348558

✦ Synopsis

Extracting information from large collections of structured, semi-structured or even unstructured data can be a considerable challenge when much of the hidden information is implicit within relationships among entities within the data. Social networks are such data collections in which relationships play a vital role in the knowledge these networks can convey. A bibliographic database is an essential tool for the research community, yet finding and making use of relationships comprised within such a social network is difficult. In this paper we introduce DBconnect, a prototype that exploits the social network coded within the DBLP database by drawing on a new random walk approach to reveal interesting knowledge about the research community and even recommend collaborations.