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Community profiling for social media

  • US 8,738,628 B2
  • Filed: 05/31/2012
  • Issued: 05/27/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer program product for use with electronic communication data, the computer program product comprising:

  • a computer readable non-transitory storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, which when executed causes a computer to;

    initialize a plurality of communities, each community being a defined grouping of interconnected participants and having an activeness, at least one topic, and at least two participants;

    iteratively assign each received communication item into one of the communities;

    in response to the assignment of the received communication item, update a statistical distribution of topics and a statistical distribution of participants in each of the communities, wherein the updating reflects the activeness;

    iteratively update a topic assignment for each word from the assigned communication; and

    profile each of the communities based on the updated statistical distribution of topics and participants.

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