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SocialNetCrawler: Online Social Network Crawler
Publication . Pais, S.; Cordeiro, João; Martins, Ricardo; Albardeiro, Miguel Ângelo Serra
The emergence and popularization of online social networks suddenly made available a large amount of data from social organization, interaction and human behavior. All this information opens new perspectives and challenges to the study of social systems, be- ing of interest to many fields. Although most online social networks are recent, a vast amount of scientific papers was already published on this topic, dealing with a broad range of analytical methods and applications. Therefore, the development of a tool capable of gather tailored information from social networks is something that can help a lot of researchers on their work, especially in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Nowadays, the daily base medium where people use more often text language lays precisely on social networks. Therefore, the ubiquitous crawling of social networks is of the utmost importance for researchers. Such a tool will allow the researcher to get the relevant needed information, allowing faster research in what really matters, without losing time on the development of his own crawler. In this paper, we present an extensive analysis of the existing social networks and their APIs, and also describe the conception and design of a social network crawler which will help NLP researchers.
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