Social Media User Search/Recommendation Using External Knowledge Bases

• Project/Area Number: 25330362
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Web informatics, Service informatics
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: NORO TOMOYA 東京工業大学, 情報理工学(系)研究科, 助教 (80401553)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TOKUDA TAKEHIRO 東京工業大学, 大学院情報理工学研究科, 教授 (30111644)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
• Keywords: ソーシャルメディア / マイクロブログ / 推薦 / 検索 / コミュニティ検出 / クラスタリング / オントロジー / ニュース記事 / ランキング / ハッシュタグ / マイニング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Finding users on social media such as Twitter and Facebook who usually post valuable messages related to a topic of interest will help us get information on the topic efficiently. However, it is not easy for us to find such users by general text mining methods, which is based on only the message text, since each message text is short.
In this research, we developed methods for finding/recommending topic-related Twitter users by using news articles and ontologies (e.g. DBpedia) as external knowledge bases. News articles are used for detecting news-topic-related hashtag communities and finding two types of influential users: content-based influential users and authority-based influential users. Ontologies are used for checking topic consistency of each user's messages and finding users who usually post messages on the same topic. In addition, we applied the methods to a method for finding topic-related messages and a method for finding hierarchical user clusters.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Searching for Relevant Tweets Based on Topic-Related User Activities (2016)
  • Author(s): Tomoya Noro, Takehiro Tokuda
  • Journal Title: Journal of Web Engineering Volume: 15 (3&4) Pages: 249-276
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Finding News-Topic Oriented Influential Twitter Users Based on Topic Related Hashtag Community Detection (2014)
  • Author(s): Feng Xiao, Tomoya Noro, Takehiro Tokuda
  • Journal Title: Journal of Web Engineering Volume: 13 (5&6) Pages: 405-429
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Effectiveness of Incorporating Follow Relation into Searching for Twitter Users to Follow (2014)
  • Author(s): Tomoya Noro, Takehoro Tokuda
  • Organizer: 14th International Conference on Web Engineering
  • Place of Presentation: Toulouse, France
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-01 – 2014-07-04
• [Presentation] Towards Finding Good Twitter Users to Follow Based on User Classification (2014)
  • Author(s): Tomoya Noro, Atsushi Mizuhoka, Takehiro Tokuda
  • Organizer: 24th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases
  • Place of Presentation: Kiel, Germany
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-03 – 2014-06-06
• [Presentation] Towards Twitter User Recommendation Based on User Relations and Taxonomical Analysis (2013)
  • Author(s): Kristian Slabbekoorn
  • Organizer: The 23rd European Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases
  • Place of Presentation: Nara, Japan