Submissions/Comparing the structure of tagging in a protein-protein interaction network, a co-authorship network and the English Wikipedia
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- Title of the submission
Comparing the structure of tagging in a protein-protein interaction network, a co-authorship network and the English Wikipedia
- Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
presentation
- Authors of the submission
Gergely Palla, Illes J. Farkas (presenting), Peter Pollner, Imre Derenyi, Tamas Vicsek
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Illes Farkas: fij@elte.hu
- Country of origin
Hungary
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
Statistical and Biological Physics Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and
Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal)
This (proposed) presentation considers three networks (nodes connected with links). A protein-protein interaction (PPI) network (nodes are yeast proteins and links are known protein-protein interactions), a co-authorship network (nodes are scientists and links indicate co-authorship), and articles of the English Wikipedia (nodes are articles, links are hyperlinks). In each of the three networks nodes are tagged. In the PPI network nodes (proteins) are tagged with the biological processes they are known to participate in, in the co-authorship network published articles (and thereby the authoring scientists themselves) receive classification tags, while Wikipedia articles (nodes) are tagged with categories at the bottom of the page.
First, in all three cases we investigated the usage frequencies of node tags (e.g., the categories of Wikipedia articles) and found that it is not possible to clearly separate frequently used tags from less frequently used tags. In this study we found that the transition between popular tags and less popular ones is — without exception — continuous. Second, we analyzed the uniqueness (u) of each node in the three networks. A high value of u indicates (roughly) that the tags of the given node appear rarely in the network. We found that in the co-authorship network nodes with large neighbor numbers (i.e., authors who have many co-authors) tend to have a large set of node tags (research topics), while in the other two networks (proteins and Wikipedia) the tags of nodes with many neighbors tend to remain within fewer, more focused topics.
Third, as a practical application, we investigated a different network: the hierarchy of node tags in the above three cases. In these cases nodes are tags (i.e., categories of the English Wikipedia) and an A→B directed link represents that the tag B is contained by A. In the Wikipedia this means that B is a subcategory of A. We found that in contrast to the other two cases, the node tag hierarchy of the English Wikipedia contains many loops. Removing these loops by removing the smallest number of of A→B subcategory connections can create a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of the categories that could boost possible artificial intelligence-based analyses of the tag structure. We suggested, implemented and carried out an algorithm for constructing this DAG most efficiently: (i) we identified the minimal subgraph of the category hierarchy containing all loops, (ii) we computed the directed edge betweenness centrality of the links of this subgraph (this quantifies how many paths of the category hierarchy pass through the "A→B subcategory" link) (iii) we removed the smallest possible number of such A→B links.
This abstract is based on Palla et.al., Fundamental statistical features and self-similar properties of tagged networks, New Journal of Physics (2008) vol. 10, p. 123026. All data are free and can be downloaded from http://CFinder.org/data.
- Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure)
Knowledge and Collaboration
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