document: Mining directed social network from message board In the paper , we present an approach to mining a directed social network from a message board on the Internet where vertices denote individuals and directed links denote the flow of influence . The influence is measured based on propagating terms among individuals via messages . The distance with respect to contextual similarity between individuals is acquired since the influence indicates the degree of their shared interest represented as terms .
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