TOWARD THE AUTOMATIC ORGANIZATION AND COMPREHENSION OF SOCIAL NETWORK COMMUNICATION

TOWARD THE AUTOMATIC ORGANIZATION AND COMPREHENSION OF SOCIAL NETWORK COMMUNICATION creator Platt, Alana advisor Hood, Cynthia Steiz Social networking sites are radically transforming the way we communicate and relate to each other. They facilitate timely information exchange and give us unprecedented access to numerous sources of information on a myriad of topics. Although the information is available, there are a number of challenges that inhibit utilization of this information: Social Networks have a great volume of messages that the user must sift through to find relevant ones, messages are frequently repetitive, the information is not organized topically, and there is little context information. The information consumer (user) must take on many of the tasks traditionally performed by the information producer to get a “big picture” understanding of the topic. This thesis introduces a framework for an automated information gathering and organization system to facilitate the information consumer’s comprehension of a given topic. The framework addresses two primary components: the user interface for the system and identification of sub-topics. The framework was implemented as a research platform designed to bring these two components together and support future research in the domain. Submitted by Liana Khananashvili (khananashvili@iit.edu) on 2013-11-05T21:17:18Z No. of bitstreams: 2 platt thesis final ThExV4.docx: 1114190 bytes, checksum: 26d5645a9d9987200f2aa3d65a10fb78 (MD5) platt title page.pdf: 87769 bytes, checksum: 549d493f0d75a2191f3b2e49ab2db85e (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-05T21:17:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 platt thesis final ThExV4.docx: 1114190 bytes, checksum: 26d5645a9d9987200f2aa3d65a10fb78 (MD5) platt title page.pdf: 87769 bytes, checksum: 549d493f0d75a2191f3b2e49ab2db85e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05 PH.D in Computer Science, May 2013 2013 2013-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3125 en Dissertation born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access CS / Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department