Social Network Extraction: Superficial Method and Information Retrieval

Social network has become one of the themes of government issues, mainly dealing with the chaos. The use of web is steadily gaining ground in these issues. However, most of the web documents are unstructured and lack of semantic. In this paper we proposed an Information Retrieval driven method for dealing with heterogeneity of features in the web. The proposed solution is to compare some approaches have shown the capacity to extract social relation: strength relations and relations based on online academic database.