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Analysis, Inference, and Visualization of Social Networks

  • US 20090164431A1
  • Filed: 12/10/2008
  • Published: 06/25/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer implemented system for inferring and analyzing social networks, the system comprising:

  • a graphical user interface that receives from a user a query for an entity of interest as an input to the system, and that provides to the user as an output from the system in response to the query a graphical network of entities and associations related to the entity of interest;

    a search engine interface, coupled to the graphical user interface, that transmits over a network the query to a search engine, and that receives over the network from the search engine references to a plurality of digitally encoded documents in response to the query;

    a named entity extractor, coupled to the search engine interface, that receives the references to the plurality of documents and downloads over the network a selection of the documents, and that generates a digitally encoded list of named entities referenced in the downloaded documents;

    a network inference module, coupled to the named entity extractor, that receives each list of named entities, and that generates digitally encoded associations between the named entities in each list; and

    an entity matcher, coupled to the network inference module and the graphical user interface, that operates on the associations generated by the network inference module so as to consolidate them in instances wherein differently named entities are determined to be the same named entity, and that provides a resulting consolidated digitally encoded list of named entities and associations to the graphical user interface for display as the graphical network.

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