Publication Date
2004
Abstract
We present an end-to-end system that extracts a user’s social network and its members’ contact information given the user’s email inbox. The system identifies unique people in email, finds theirWeb presence, and automatically fills the fields of a contact address book using conditional random fields—a type of probabilistic model well-suited for such information extraction tasks. By recursively calling itself on new people discovered on the Web, the system builds a social network with multiple degrees of separation from the user. Additionally, a set of expertise-describing keywords are extracted and associated with each person. We outline the collection of statistical and learning components that enable this system, and present experimental results on the real email of two users; we also present results with a simple method of learning transfer, and discuss the capabilities of the system for addressbook population, expert-finding, and social network analysis.
Recommended Citation
Culotta, Aron; Bekkerman, Ron; and McCallum, Andrew, "Extracting social networks and contact information from email and the Web" (2004). Computer Science Department Faculty Publication Series. 33.
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