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      Detection of Trending Topic Communities: Bridging Content Creators and Distributors

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      Seventh BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA)
      Future Directions in Information Access
      5 September 2017
      Trending topics, community detection, content creators, content distributors, Twitter
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            Abstract

            The rise of a trending topic on Twitter leads to the temporal emergence of a set of users currently interested in that topic. Given the temporary nature of the links between these users (more users as well as more interactions among them appear while the topic evolves), being able to dynamically identify communities of users related to this trending topic would allow for a rapid spread of information. In this paper, we tackle this challenge, by identifying coherent topic-dependent user groups, linking those who generate the content (creators) and those who spread this content, e.g., by retweeting/reposting it (distributors). This is a novel problem on group-to-group interactions in the context of recommender systems and user modeling. Analysis on real-world Twitter data compare our proposal with a baseline approach that considers the retweeting activity, and validate it with standard metrics. Results show the effectiveness of our approach to identify communities interested in a topic where each includes content creators and content distributors, facilitating users’ interactions and the spread of new information.

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            Conference
            September 2017
            September 2017
            : 1-4
            Affiliations
            [0001]Web Research Group, DTIC

            Universitat Pompeu Fabra

            Barcelona, 08018 Spain
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.6
            087fe040-7d03-4042-a7b9-c74dbb1c24f2
            © Recalde. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access 2017

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Seventh BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access
            FDIA
            7
            Barcelona, Spain
            5 September 2017
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Future Directions in Information Access
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.6
            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
            Categories
            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Trending topics,content distributors,community detection,Twitter,content creators

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