Data mining techniques in social media: A survey

Neurocomputing

Volumn 214, Issue , 2016, Pages 654-670

  Injadat, MohammadNoor ^a   Salo, Fadi ^a   Nassif, Ali Bou ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Data mining; Social media; Social media networks analysis; Survey

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYING; SURVEYS;

DATA MINING APPLICATIONS; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; RESEARCH STRATEGY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS; UNSTRUCTURED DATA;

DATA MINING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BIOMETRY; BLOGGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA MINING; DECISION TREE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MASS COMMUNICATION; MICROBLOGGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VIDEO AND PHOTO SHARING;

EID: 84992490341     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2016.06.045     Document Type: Article

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