Incorporating social role theory into topic models for social media content analysis

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the idea of social role theory (SRT) and propose a novel regularized topic model which incorporates SRT into the generative process of social media content. We assume that a user can play multiple social roles, and each social role serves to fulfil different duties and is associated with a role-driven distribution over latent topics. In particular, we focus on social roles corresponding to the most common social activities on social networks. Our model is instantiated on microblogs, i.e., Twitter and community question-answering (cQA), i.e., Yahoo! Answers, where social roles on Twitter include "originators" and "propagators", and roles on cQA are "askers" and "answerers". Both explicit and implicit interactions between users are taken into account and modeled as regularization factors. To evaluate the performance of our proposed method, we have conducted extensive experiments on two Twitter datasets and two cQA datasets. Furthermore, we also consider multi-role modeling for scientific papers where an author's research expertise area is considered as a social role. A novel application of detecting users' research interests through topical keyword labeling based on the results of our multi-role model has been presented. The evaluation results have shown the feasibility and effectiveness of our model.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2014.2359672
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI)
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Uncontrolled Keywords: Computational Theory and Mathematics,Information Systems,Computer Science Applications
Publication ISSN: 1558-2191
Last Modified: 01 Mar 2024 08:11
Date Deposited: 22 Apr 2015 15:15
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2015-04-01
Authors: Zhao, Wayne Xin
Wang, Jinpeng
He, Yulan (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-3948-5845)
Nie, Jian-Yun
Wen, Ji-Rong
Li, Xiaoming

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