| Journal: | Computación y sistemas |
| Database: | |
| System number: | 000560675 |
| ISSN: | 1405-5546 |
| Authors: | Baowaly, Mrinal Kanti1 Kibirige, George William2 Singh, Bikash Chandra3 |
| Institutions: | 1Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladés 2Sokoine University of Agriculture, Department of Informatics and Information Technology, Tanzania 3Islamic University, Department of Information and Communication Technology, Kushtia. Bangladés |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Season: | Ene-Mar |
| Volumen: | 26 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Pages: | 311-323 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Inglés |
| English abstract | This work analyzes the online Reddit comments and proposes a novel approach to construct a social network automatically within Reddit that connects users to it. The investigation reveals that users tend to form links to others who have a mutual interest in interacting with some topics or posts. This mutual interest among users can make connections among them in the network. This study shows that Reddit contains a large, strongly connected core of high-degree nodes, surrounded by many small clusters of low-degree nodes which the authors define as the Co-Comment network. One of the important research focuses is to examine whether the networks built from the Reddit comments show the desirable social network properties, e.g., power-law distribution, small-world effect, and clustering coefficient. Results obtained from the experiment confirm that the Co-Comment network conforms to social network properties. The authors also discover communities within the Co-Comment network and verify them to validate the constructed network. |
| Keyword: | Social network, Communities in social network, Network properties, Power-law, Small-world effect, Clustering coefficient |
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