A combination approach to web user profiling

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tang, Jie ^a   Yao, Limin ^b   Zhang, Duo ^c   Zhang, Jing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Name disambiguation; Social network; Text mining; Topic modeling; User profiling

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION EXTRACTION; NAME DISAMBIGUATION; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TEXT MINING; TOPIC MODELING; USER PROFILING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; MODELS; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WEBSITES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 78650756423     PISSN: 15564681     EISSN: 1556472X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1870096.1870098     Document Type: Article

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