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CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A Semantic Imitation Model of Social Tag Choices
—We describe a semantic imitation model of social tagging that integrates formal representations of semantics and a stochastic tag choice process to explain and predict emergent ...
Wai-Tat Fu, Thomas George Kannampallil, Ruogu Kang
SIGCOMM
2012
ACM
13 years 4 days ago
Predicting location using mobile phone calls
Location prediction using mobile phone traces has attracted increasing attention. Owing to the irregular user mobility patterns, it still remains challenging to predict user locat...
Daqiang Zhang, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Haoyi Xion...
CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Predicting Interests of People on Online Social Networks
—We introduce a new data set which contains both a self-declared friendship network and self-chosen attributes from a finite list defined by the social networking site. We prop...
Apoorv Agarwal, Owen Rambow, Nandini Bhardwaj
GI
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Topic bias in the social media - The representation of political topics in Obama's 'Open for Questions'-campaign in comparison t
: There is a large body of research on the topic of political communication in traditional media and in online media. Since President Obama has made use of new forms of participati...
Anna Riedel, Send Hendrik
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Using a model of social dynamics to predict popularity of news
Popularity of content in social media is unequally distributed, with some items receiving a disproportionate share of attention from users. Predicting which newly-submitted items ...
Kristina Lerman, Tad Hogg