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Inferring user interests from their activities in the social network space has been an emerging research topic in the recent years. While much work is done towards detecting explicit interests of the users from their social posts, less work is dedicated to identifying implicit interests, which are also very important for building an accurate user model. In this paper, a graph based link prediction schema is proposed to infer implicit interests of the users towards emerging topics on Twitter. The underlying graph of our proposed work uses three types of information: user’s followerships, user’s explicit interests towards the topics, and the relatedness of the topics. To investigate the impact of each type of information on the accuracy of inferring user implicit interests, different variants of the underlying representation model are investigated along with several link prediction strategies in order to infer implicit interests. Our experimental results demonstrate that using topics relatedness information, especially when determined through semantic similarity measures, has considerable impact on improving the accuracy of user implicit interest prediction, compared to when followership information is only used.
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Zarrinkalam, F., Fani, H., Bagheri, E., Kahani, M. (2016). Inferring Implicit Topical Interests on Twitter. In: Ferro, N., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9626. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30671-1_35
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