COMMUNITY EXTRACTION METHOD, COMMUNITY EXTRACTION PROCESSING APPARATUS

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To extract a community as a set of persons having relations based on a common topic and interest thickly from sets of data representing relations between persons and contents thereof. PSOLUTION: A community is extracted by performing processes of: a step of clustering relational content data; a step of extracting a core of a relational network; a step of mapping the core to a dendrogram of the relational content data; a step of using the dendrogram to form a community while expanding a cluster based on the similarity of contents of the relation; and a step of integrating the communities. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT