Community Discovery: from Web Pages to Social Networks

Damien Leprovost (1) , Lylia Abrouk (1) , David Gross-Amblard (1)

1 Le2i - Laboratoire Electronique, Informatique et Image [UMR6306]

This chapter presents a state of the art of research on the discovery of Web communities, in a general sense. For this purpose, the authors discuss various notions of communities and their related assumptions: hypertextual communities, tag communities and semantic-based communities.

Domaines: Web

Damien Leprovost, Lylia Abrouk, David Gross-Amblard. Community Discovery: from Web Pages to Social Networks. Social Network Mining, Analysis and Research Trends: Techniques and Applications, IGI Global, pp.56-64, 2012, 9781613505137. ⟨10.4018/978-1-61350-513-7.ch004⟩. ⟨hal-00803201⟩