Forwarding is a major means of information dissemination on the Microblog platform.The article,combining static analysis and dynamic analysis,takes Microblog forwarding as the object of study,and studies the network t...Forwarding is a major means of information dissemination on the Microblog platform.The article,combining static analysis and dynamic analysis,takes Microblog forwarding as the object of study,and studies the network topology of grass-roots Microblog forwarding users.It also studies the correlation between characteristic quantity and forwarding times of Microblog network topology.Furthermore,it conducts modification on virus transmission model,builds and verifies the Microblog forwarding dynamical model.The study finds out that Microblog postings present qute strong dissemination capacity on the initial stage,and some Microblog postings with many forwarding times and long duration of forwarding process due to the dynamic growth of the forwarding user network and the joining of strong nodes make network infection density decrease in some phases.展开更多
Microblogs have become an important platform for people to publish,transform information and acquire knowledge.This paper focuses on the problem of discovering user interest in microblogs.In this paper,we propose a to...Microblogs have become an important platform for people to publish,transform information and acquire knowledge.This paper focuses on the problem of discovering user interest in microblogs.In this paper,we propose a topic mining model based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA) named user-topic model.For each user,the interests are divided into two parts by different ways to generate the microblogs:original interest and retweet interest.We represent a Gibbs sampling implementation for inference the parameters of our model,and discover not only user's original interest,but also retweet interest.Then we combine original interest and retweet interest to compute interest words for users.Experiments on a dataset of Sina microblogs demonstrate that our model is able to discover user interest effectively and outperforms existing topic models in this task.And we find that original interest and retweet interest are similar and the topics of interest contain user labels.The interest words discovered by our model reflect user labels,but range is much broader.展开更多
Based on user＇s in-degree distribution, traditional ranking algorithms of user＇s weight usually neglect the considerations of the differences among user＇s followers and the features of user＇s tweets. In order to a...Based on user＇s in-degree distribution, traditional ranking algorithms of user＇s weight usually neglect the considerations of the differences among user＇s followers and the features of user＇s tweets. In order to analyze the factors which impact on user＇s weight, under the analysis of the data collected from SINA Microblog network, this paper discovers that user influence and active degrees are the dominant factors for this issue. The proposed algorithm evaluates user influence by user＇s follower number, the influence of user＇s followers and the reciprocity between users. User＇s active degree is modeled by user＇s participation and the quality of user＇s tweets. The models are tested by different data groups to confirm the parameters for the final calculation. Eventually, this paper compares the computational results with the user＇s ranking order given by the SINA official application. The performance of this algorithm presents a stronger stability on the fluctuant range of the value of user＇s weight.展开更多
A novel microblog summarization approach via enriching contextual features on sentencelevel semantic analysis is proposed in this paper. At first,a Chinese sentential semantic model（ CSM） is employed to analyze the ...A novel microblog summarization approach via enriching contextual features on sentencelevel semantic analysis is proposed in this paper. At first,a Chinese sentential semantic model（ CSM） is employed to analyze the semantic structure of each microblog sentence. Then,a combination of sentence-level semantic analysis and latent dirichlet allocation is utilized to acquire extra features and related words to enrich the collection of microblog messages. The simlilarites between the two sentences are calculated based on the enriched features. Finally,the semantic weight and relation weight are calculated to select the most informative sentences,which form the final summary for microblog messages. Experimental results demonstrate the advantages of our proposed approach.The results indicate that introducing sentence-level semantic analysis for context enrichment can better represent sentential semantic. The proposed criteria,namely,semantic weight and relation weight enhance summary result. Furthermore,CSM is a useful framework for sentence-level semantic analysis.展开更多
Purpose: This paper intends to explore a quantitative method for investigating the characteristics of information diffusion through social media like weblogs and microblogs.By using the social network analysis methods...Purpose: This paper intends to explore a quantitative method for investigating the characteristics of information diffusion through social media like weblogs and microblogs.By using the social network analysis methods,we attempt to analyze the different characteristics of information diffusion in weblogs and microblogs as well as the possible reasons of these differences.Design/methodology/approach: Using the social network analysis methods,this paper carries out an empirical study by taking the Chinese weblogs and microblogs in the field of Library and Information Science(LIS) as the research sample and employing measures such as network density,core/peripheral structure and centrality.Findings: Firstly,both bloggers and microbloggers maintain weak ties,and both of their social networks display a small-world effect. Secondly,compared with weblog users,microblog users are more interconnected,more equal and more capable of developing relationships with people outside their own social networks. Thirdly,the microblogging social network is more conducive to information diffusion than the blogging network,because of their differences in functions and the information flow mechanism. Finally,the communication mode emerged with microblogging,with the characteristics of micro-content,multi-channel information dissemination,dense and decentralized social network and content aggregation,will be one of the trends in the development of the information exchange platform in the future.Research limitations: The sample size needs to be increased so that samples are more representative. Errors may exist during the data collection. Moreover,the individual-level characteristics of the samples as well as the types of information exchanged need to be further studied.Practical implications: This preliminary study explores the characteristics of information diffusion in the network environment and verifies the feasibility of conducting a quantitative analysis of information diffusion through social media. In addition,it provides insight into the characteristics of information diffusion in weblogs and microblogs and the possible reasons of these differences.Originality/value: We have analyzed the characteristics of information diffusion in weblogs and microblogs by using the social network analysis methods. This research will be useful for a quantitative analysis of the underlying mechanisms of information flow through social media in the network environment.展开更多
Some research work has showed that public mood and stock market price have some relations in some degree. Although it is difficult to clear the relation, the research about the relation between stock market price and ...Some research work has showed that public mood and stock market price have some relations in some degree. Although it is difficult to clear the relation, the research about the relation between stock market price and public mood is interested by some scientists. This paper tries to find the relationship between Chinese stock market and Chinese local Microblog. First, C-POMS(Chinese Profile of Mood States) was proposed to analyze sentiment of Microblog feeds. Then Granger causality test confirmed the relation between C-POMS analysis and price series. SVM and Probabilistic Neural Network were used to make prediction, and experiments show that SVM is better to predict stock market movements than Probabilistic Neural Network. Experiments also indicate that adding certain dimension of C-POMS as the input data will improve the prediction accuracy to 66.667%. Two dimensions to input data leads to the highest accuracy of 71.429%, which is about 20% higher than using only history stock data as the input data. This paper also compared the proposed method with the ROSTEA scores, and concluded that only the proposed method brings more accurate predicts.展开更多
Considering that there exists a strong similarity between behaviors of users and intelligence of swarm of agents,in this paper we propose a novel user recommendation strategy based on particle swarm optimization(PSO)f...Considering that there exists a strong similarity between behaviors of users and intelligence of swarm of agents,in this paper we propose a novel user recommendation strategy based on particle swarm optimization(PSO)for Microblog network. Specifically,a PSO-based algorithm is developed to learn the user influence,where not only the number of followers is incorporated,but also the interactions among users(e.g.,forwarding and commenting on other users' tweets). Three social factors,the influence and the activity of the target user,together with the coherence between users,are fused to improve the performance of proposed recommendation strategy. Experimental results show that,compared to the well-known Page Rank-based algorithm,the proposed strategy performs much better in terms of precision and recall and it can effectively avoid a biased result caused by celebrity effect and zombie fans effect.展开更多
People's attitudes towards public events or products may change overtime,rather than staying on the same state.Understanding how sentiments change overtime is an interesting and important problem with many applica...People's attitudes towards public events or products may change overtime,rather than staying on the same state.Understanding how sentiments change overtime is an interesting and important problem with many applications.Given a certain public event or product,a user's sentiments expressed in microblog stream can be regarded as a vector.In this paper,we define a novel problem of sentiment evolution analysis,and develop a simple yet effective method to detect sentiment evolution in user-level for public events.We firstly propose a multidimensional sentiment model with hierarchical structure to model user's complicate sentiments.Based on this model,we use FP-growth tree algorithm to mine frequent sentiment patterns and perform sentiment evolution analysis by Kullback-Leibler divergence.Moreover,we develop an improve Affinity Propagation algorithm to detect why people change their sentiments.Experimental evaluations on real data sets show that sentiment evolution could be implemented effectively using our method proposed in this article.展开更多
Purpose： This study aims to investigate and compare celebrity and ordinary users＇ behaviors on Sina Weibo. Design/methodology/approach： Data was collected from 12,555 ordinary users and 2,467 celebrity users on Sin...Purpose： This study aims to investigate and compare celebrity and ordinary users＇ behaviors on Sina Weibo. Design/methodology/approach： Data was collected from 12,555 ordinary users and 2,467 celebrity users on Sina Weibo. Correlation and regression analysis was performed on users＇ number of followings, number of followers and number of posts. Findings： The results revealed significant difference between famous and ordinary users＇ behaviors on Sina Weibo. We found correlation among ordinary users＇ number of followings, number of followers and number of posts, but for celebrity users, only their number of followings and number of posts are related with each other. For both ordinary and celebrity users, their number of followings significantly affects how many posts they publish. Research limitations： We only carried out our investigation on Sina Weibo and the findings need to be further verified on other microblogging platforms. Practical implications： This research is useful for microblogging service providers to understand different types of users and promote the continuous use of their services. Originality/value： This research delivers valuable insights into understanding of the characteristics of different types of microbloggers and the ways to increase user viscosity.展开更多
Microblog is a new Internet featured product, which has seen a rapid development in recent years. Researchers from different countries are making various technical analyses on microblogging applications. In this study...Microblog is a new Internet featured product, which has seen a rapid development in recent years. Researchers from different countries are making various technical analyses on microblogging applications. In this study, through using the natural language processing(NLP) and data mining, we analyzed the information content transmitted via a microblog, users' social networks and their interactions, and carried out an empirical analysis on the dissemination process of one particular piece of information via Sina Weibo.Based on the result of these analyses, we attempt to develop a better understanding about the rule and mechanism of the informal information flow in microblogging.展开更多
基金The research is supported by National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program)，Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China，the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2013RC0603)."
文摘Forwarding is a major means of information dissemination on the Microblog platform.The article,combining static analysis and dynamic analysis,takes Microblog forwarding as the object of study,and studies the network topology of grass-roots Microblog forwarding users.It also studies the correlation between characteristic quantity and forwarding times of Microblog network topology.Furthermore,it conducts modification on virus transmission model,builds and verifies the Microblog forwarding dynamical model.The study finds out that Microblog postings present qute strong dissemination capacity on the initial stage,and some Microblog postings with many forwarding times and long duration of forwarding process due to the dynamic growth of the forwarding user network and the joining of strong nodes make network infection density decrease in some phases.
基金This work was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China（No. 2010AA012505, 2011AA010702, 2012AA01A401 and 2012AA01A402）, Chinese National Science Foundation （No. 60933005, 91124002,61303265）, National Technology Support Foundation （No. 2012BAH38B04） and National 242 Foundation （No. 2011A010）
文摘Microblogs have become an important platform for people to publish,transform information and acquire knowledge.This paper focuses on the problem of discovering user interest in microblogs.In this paper,we propose a topic mining model based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA) named user-topic model.For each user,the interests are divided into two parts by different ways to generate the microblogs:original interest and retweet interest.We represent a Gibbs sampling implementation for inference the parameters of our model,and discover not only user's original interest,but also retweet interest.Then we combine original interest and retweet interest to compute interest words for users.Experiments on a dataset of Sina microblogs demonstrate that our model is able to discover user interest effectively and outperforms existing topic models in this task.And we find that original interest and retweet interest are similar and the topics of interest contain user labels.The interest words discovered by our model reflect user labels,but range is much broader.
基金supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China under Grant No. 61172072the Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant No. 4112045the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. 2011YJS215
文摘Based on user＇s in-degree distribution, traditional ranking algorithms of user＇s weight usually neglect the considerations of the differences among user＇s followers and the features of user＇s tweets. In order to analyze the factors which impact on user＇s weight, under the analysis of the data collected from SINA Microblog network, this paper discovers that user influence and active degrees are the dominant factors for this issue. The proposed algorithm evaluates user influence by user＇s follower number, the influence of user＇s followers and the reciprocity between users. User＇s active degree is modeled by user＇s participation and the quality of user＇s tweets. The models are tested by different data groups to confirm the parameters for the final calculation. Eventually, this paper compares the computational results with the user＇s ranking order given by the SINA official application. The performance of this algorithm presents a stronger stability on the fluctuant range of the value of user＇s weight.
基金Supported by 242 National Information Security Projects(2017A149)
文摘A novel microblog summarization approach via enriching contextual features on sentencelevel semantic analysis is proposed in this paper. At first,a Chinese sentential semantic model（ CSM） is employed to analyze the semantic structure of each microblog sentence. Then,a combination of sentence-level semantic analysis and latent dirichlet allocation is utilized to acquire extra features and related words to enrich the collection of microblog messages. The simlilarites between the two sentences are calculated based on the enriched features. Finally,the semantic weight and relation weight are calculated to select the most informative sentences,which form the final summary for microblog messages. Experimental results demonstrate the advantages of our proposed approach.The results indicate that introducing sentence-level semantic analysis for context enrichment can better represent sentential semantic. The proposed criteria,namely,semantic weight and relation weight enhance summary result. Furthermore,CSM is a useful framework for sentence-level semantic analysis.
基金supported by Sun Yat-sen University Cultivation Fund for Young Teachers(Grant No.:20000-3161102)the National Social Science Fundation of China(Grant No.:08CTQ015)
文摘Purpose: This paper intends to explore a quantitative method for investigating the characteristics of information diffusion through social media like weblogs and microblogs.By using the social network analysis methods,we attempt to analyze the different characteristics of information diffusion in weblogs and microblogs as well as the possible reasons of these differences.Design/methodology/approach: Using the social network analysis methods,this paper carries out an empirical study by taking the Chinese weblogs and microblogs in the field of Library and Information Science(LIS) as the research sample and employing measures such as network density,core/peripheral structure and centrality.Findings: Firstly,both bloggers and microbloggers maintain weak ties,and both of their social networks display a small-world effect. Secondly,compared with weblog users,microblog users are more interconnected,more equal and more capable of developing relationships with people outside their own social networks. Thirdly,the microblogging social network is more conducive to information diffusion than the blogging network,because of their differences in functions and the information flow mechanism. Finally,the communication mode emerged with microblogging,with the characteristics of micro-content,multi-channel information dissemination,dense and decentralized social network and content aggregation,will be one of the trends in the development of the information exchange platform in the future.Research limitations: The sample size needs to be increased so that samples are more representative. Errors may exist during the data collection. Moreover,the individual-level characteristics of the samples as well as the types of information exchanged need to be further studied.Practical implications: This preliminary study explores the characteristics of information diffusion in the network environment and verifies the feasibility of conducting a quantitative analysis of information diffusion through social media. In addition,it provides insight into the characteristics of information diffusion in weblogs and microblogs and the possible reasons of these differences.Originality/value: We have analyzed the characteristics of information diffusion in weblogs and microblogs by using the social network analysis methods. This research will be useful for a quantitative analysis of the underlying mechanisms of information flow through social media in the network environment.
基金supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program)(No.2015AA050204)
文摘Some research work has showed that public mood and stock market price have some relations in some degree. Although it is difficult to clear the relation, the research about the relation between stock market price and public mood is interested by some scientists. This paper tries to find the relationship between Chinese stock market and Chinese local Microblog. First, C-POMS(Chinese Profile of Mood States) was proposed to analyze sentiment of Microblog feeds. Then Granger causality test confirmed the relation between C-POMS analysis and price series. SVM and Probabilistic Neural Network were used to make prediction, and experiments show that SVM is better to predict stock market movements than Probabilistic Neural Network. Experiments also indicate that adding certain dimension of C-POMS as the input data will improve the prediction accuracy to 66.667%. Two dimensions to input data leads to the highest accuracy of 71.429%, which is about 20% higher than using only history stock data as the input data. This paper also compared the proposed method with the ROSTEA scores, and concluded that only the proposed method brings more accurate predicts.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61171109)Applied Basic Research Programs of Sichuan Science and Technology Department(No.2014JY0215)Basic Research Plan in SWUST(No.13zx9101)
文摘Considering that there exists a strong similarity between behaviors of users and intelligence of swarm of agents,in this paper we propose a novel user recommendation strategy based on particle swarm optimization(PSO)for Microblog network. Specifically,a PSO-based algorithm is developed to learn the user influence,where not only the number of followers is incorporated,but also the interactions among users(e.g.,forwarding and commenting on other users' tweets). Three social factors,the influence and the activity of the target user,together with the coherence between users,are fused to improve the performance of proposed recommendation strategy. Experimental results show that,compared to the well-known Page Rank-based algorithm,the proposed strategy performs much better in terms of precision and recall and it can effectively avoid a biased result caused by celebrity effect and zombie fans effect.
基金ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their detailed reviews and constructive comments, which have helped improve the quality of this paper. The research was supported in part by National Basic Research Program of China （973 Program, No. 2013CB329601, No. 2013CB329604）, National Natural Science Foundation of China （No.91124002, 61372191, 61472433, 61202362, 11301302）, and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation （2013M542560）. All opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.
文摘People's attitudes towards public events or products may change overtime,rather than staying on the same state.Understanding how sentiments change overtime is an interesting and important problem with many applications.Given a certain public event or product,a user's sentiments expressed in microblog stream can be regarded as a vector.In this paper,we define a novel problem of sentiment evolution analysis,and develop a simple yet effective method to detect sentiment evolution in user-level for public events.We firstly propose a multidimensional sentiment model with hierarchical structure to model user's complicate sentiments.Based on this model,we use FP-growth tree algorithm to mine frequent sentiment patterns and perform sentiment evolution analysis by Kullback-Leibler divergence.Moreover,we develop an improve Affinity Propagation algorithm to detect why people change their sentiments.Experimental evaluations on real data sets show that sentiment evolution could be implemented effectively using our method proposed in this article.
文摘Purpose： This study aims to investigate and compare celebrity and ordinary users＇ behaviors on Sina Weibo. Design/methodology/approach： Data was collected from 12,555 ordinary users and 2,467 celebrity users on Sina Weibo. Correlation and regression analysis was performed on users＇ number of followings, number of followers and number of posts. Findings： The results revealed significant difference between famous and ordinary users＇ behaviors on Sina Weibo. We found correlation among ordinary users＇ number of followings, number of followers and number of posts, but for celebrity users, only their number of followings and number of posts are related with each other. For both ordinary and celebrity users, their number of followings significantly affects how many posts they publish. Research limitations： We only carried out our investigation on Sina Weibo and the findings need to be further verified on other microblogging platforms. Practical implications： This research is useful for microblogging service providers to understand different types of users and promote the continuous use of their services. Originality/value： This research delivers valuable insights into understanding of the characteristics of different types of microbloggers and the ways to increase user viscosity.
文摘Microblog is a new Internet featured product, which has seen a rapid development in recent years. Researchers from different countries are making various technical analyses on microblogging applications. In this study, through using the natural language processing(NLP) and data mining, we analyzed the information content transmitted via a microblog, users' social networks and their interactions, and carried out an empirical analysis on the dissemination process of one particular piece of information via Sina Weibo.Based on the result of these analyses, we attempt to develop a better understanding about the rule and mechanism of the informal information flow in microblogging.
