Information monitoring, propagation analysis and community detection in Social Network Sites
[Italian version] We are happy to announce that the SIGSNA team has just been awarded of some new research funds. The funds coming from the FIRB – future in research – funding action of the Italian Minister of Research and University are awarded only to young researcher under the age of 32 yo. Our research [...]
Full StoryPRIN: Online social relations and identity: Italian experience in Social Network Sites.
We are happy to announce that the SIGSNA team is now officially part of a larger research group, counting 5 Italian universities (University of Urbino, University of Bologna, Catholic University of Milano, University of Bergamo, Calabria University), that has recently been awarded of PRIN research funds for the project: Online social relations and identity: Italian [...]
Full StoryMulti-Layer Networks: data available
We have made the data of our latest work on multi-layer networks available in the Data section. The zip file contains two networks in cvs format, one between twitter users and the other between friendfeed users, and a file with account correspondences indicating pairs of accounts in twitter and friendfeed belonging to the same person. [...]
Full StoryThe ML-model for multi-layer social networks
In few weeks we’re going to Kaohsiung, Taiwan to present at the International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2011). We’re really excited about this conference (last year was great!) and we want to share the paper we’re presenting. It’s been a while since we’ve started working on the ML model [...]
Full StoryUstation interviews Matteo about the SIGSNA project
Ustation – national webzine about university – recently made a long interview with Matteo about the SIGSNA project. The interview (in Italian) is available on their website and can be listened here:
Full StoryConversation retrieval from Social Media
Next week Matteo is going to Dublin for the annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). We are presenting a demo of our Conversation retrieval system for Social Media and Social Network Sites. While the addition of Social aspect to traditional online searches has been around for some times we are following a different approach. [...]
Full StorySIGSNA research: brochure
We’ve recently done a small brochure to present our recent researches. If you want to download it and enjoy our cool visualizations there’s the PDF file.
Full StorySIGSNA TwitterGet: a Twitter downloading tool
When we started our researches on Twitter propagation we, as many others, used the well known Twapperkeeper service in order to save and download Tweets. Later we moved toward an ad hoc solution which was highly customised for our specific needs and infrastructure. Recently due to a change in Twitter policy Twapperkeeper removed the export [...]
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