Personalized re-ranking of tweets

Yukun Zhao, Shangsong Liang, Jun Ma

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Abstract

In microblogs, the problem of information overload has troubled many users especially those with numerous followees. Users receive hundreds of tweets in chronological order and have to scan through pages of tweets to find useful information. In this paper, we propose a personalized tweet re-ranking framework for re-ranking the tweets received by a user based on his preference such that interesting tweets are ranked higher for the user. With the personalized re-ranked tweets, the user can find his interesting tweets conveniently. Modeling users’ preference in the context of tweet streams is more challenging than modeling that in the context of long documents as it is difficult to capture users’ interests with sparse short text documents like tweets. To address this challenge, we propose a media awareness tweet re-ranking model, MATR for short, to incorporate WeMedia accounts (WeMedia is a type of accounts in microblogs that only has media attributes publishing original and valuable messages), and explicitly calculate the influence of the publishers of these tweets. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method compared to state-of-the-art baselines.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsJianmin Wang, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Hua Wang, Rui Zhou, Yanchun Zhang, Wojciech Cellary
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages70-84
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783319487427
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event17th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2016 - Shanghai, China
Duration: Nov 8 2016Nov 10 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10042 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period11/8/1611/10/16

Keywords

  • Microblog
  • Personalized tweet re-ranking
  • Topic modeling

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