Title
A survey on text mining in social networks.
Abstract
In this survey, we review different text mining techniques to discover various textual patterns from the social networking sites. Social network applications create opportunities to establish interaction among people leading to mutual learning and sharing of valuable knowledge, such as chat, comments, and discussion boards. Data in social networking websites is inherently unstructured and fuzzy in nature. In everyday life conversations, people do not care about the spellings and accurate grammatical construction of a sentence that may lead to different types of ambiguities, such as lexical, syntactic, and semantic. Therefore, analyzing and extracting information patterns from such data sets are more complex. Several surveys have been conducted to analyze different methods for the information extraction. Most of the surveys emphasized on the application of different text mining techniques for unstructured data sets reside in the form of text documents, but do not specifically target the data sets in social networking website. This survey attempts to provide a thorough understanding of different text mining techniques as well as the application of these techniques in the social networking websites. This survey investigates the recent advancement in the field of text analysis and covers two basic approaches of text mining, such as classification and clustering that are widely used for the exploration of the unstructured text available on the Web.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1017/S0269888914000277
KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING REVIEW
Field
DocType
Volume
Data science,World Wide Web,Everyday life,Text mining,Social network,Computer science,Grammatical construction,Unstructured data,Information extraction,Cluster analysis,Sentence
Journal
30
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP2.0
0269-8889
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.54
27
15
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rizwana Irfan1120.54
Christine K. King2120.54
Daniel Grages3120.54
Sam Ewen4231.02
Samee U. Khan5157283.04
Sajjad Ahmad Madani640926.21
Joanna Kolodziej792055.57
Lizhe Wang82973191.46
Dan Chen9109659.02
Ammar Rayes1032130.66
Nikos Tziritas1123021.85
Z. Chen123443271.62
Albert Y. Zomaya135709454.84
Ahmed Saeed Alzahrani14261.22
Hongxiang Li1527016.42