List of Research Areas
From ScribbleWiki: Analysis of Social Media
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- Sentiment analysis: Analyzing text to detect sentiment, polarity, opinions, etc.
- Author identification: Analyzing authored text or profile information to identify the author, or predict some properties of the author, eg demographics, geographical location, etc.
- Graph-based analysis: Analysis of link structure.
- Spam detection: ....
- Tags and folksonomies: synonym and homonym resolution in tags
- Visualization of social media: ...
- Viral marketing: ...
- Trend analysis: identification and tracking of trends
- Politics and social media: ...
- Community dynamics: ...
- Recommender systems: filtering large dataset of items based on user preferences (wikipedia)
- Data acquisition: crawling, spidering and indexing
- Semantic Web: collaborative creation of structured knowledge
- Privacy issues: ...