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In this chapter, we assumed that for asynchronous conversations the reply-to relations between
turns are readily available. However, when this is not the case, methods have been proposed to
reconstruct the missing thread structure [ Wang et al. , 2008 ].
Another interesting topic we do not cover in this chapter is how mining text conversations
can benefit from an analysis of the participants' social network. See McCallum et al. [ 2007 ] for an
example of how this can be done for topic modeling of email conversations. See also the Synthesis
Lecture by Tang and Liu [ 2010 ] for more information on community detection and mining in social
media.