@MISC{Jin_extractinginter-firm, author = {Yingzi Jin}, title = {Extracting Inter-Firm Networks from World Wide Web}, year = {} }
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Abstract
Social relations play an important role in a real communities. Interaction patterns reveal relations among actors (such as persons, groups, firms), which can be merged to produce valuable information as a network structure. This paper presents a new approach to extract inter-firm networks from the web for further analysis. Extraction of relations between a pair of firms is realized using a search engine and text processing. Because names of firms co-appear coincidentally on the web, we propose an advanced algorithm,