Artificial and Natural Topic Detection in Online Social Networks

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  • Sylvio Barbon Jr Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  • Gabriel Marques Tavares Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  • Guilherme Sakaji Kido Universidade Estadual de Londrina

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https://doi.org/10.5753/isys.2017.329

Abstract

Online Social Networks (OSNs), such as Twitter, offer attractive means of social interactions and communications, but also raise privacy and security issues. The OSNs provide valuable information to marketing and competitiveness based on users posts and opinions stored inside a huge volume of data from several themes, topics, and subjects. In order to mining the topics discussed on an OSN we present a novel application of Louvain method for TopicModeling based on communities detection in graphs by modularity. The proposed approach succeeded in finding topics in five different datasets composed of textual content from Twitter and Youtube. Another important contribution achieved was about the presence of texts posted by spammers. In this case, a particular behavior observed by graph community architecture (density and degree) allows the indication of a topic strength and the classification of it as natural or artificial. The later created by the spammers on OSNs.

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Published

2017-03-12

How to Cite

Barbon Jr, S., Tavares, G. M., & Kido, G. S. (2017). Artificial and Natural Topic Detection in Online Social Networks. ISys - Brazilian Journal of Information Systems, 10(1), 80–98. https://doi.org/10.5753/isys.2017.329

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