Event-Based User Classification in Weibo Media

Joint Authors

Guo, Liang
Cheng, Shiduan
Que, Xirong
Wang, Wendong

Source

The Scientific World Journal

Issue

Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-11, 11 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2014-07-16

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

11

Main Subjects

Medicine
Information Technology and Computer Science

Abstract EN

Weibo media, known as the real-time microblogging services, has attracted massive attention and support from social network users.

Weibo platform offers an opportunity for people to access information and changes the way people acquire and disseminate information significantly.

Meanwhile, it enables people to respond to the social events in a more convenient way.

Much of the information in Weibo media is related to some events.

Users who post different contents, and exert different behavior or attitude may lead to different contribution to the specific event.

Therefore, classifying the large amount of uncategorized social circles generated in Weibo media automatically from the perspective of events has been a promising task.

Under this circumstance, in order to effectively organize and manage the huge amounts of users, thereby further managing their contents, we address the task of user classification in a more granular, event-based approach in this paper.

By analyzing real data collected from Sina Weibo, we investigate the Weibo properties and utilize both content information and social network information to classify the numerous users into four primary groups: celebrities, organizations/media accounts, grassroots stars, and ordinary individuals.

The experiments results show that our method identifies the user categories accurately.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Guo, Liang& Wang, Wendong& Cheng, Shiduan& Que, Xirong. 2014. Event-Based User Classification in Weibo Media. The Scientific World Journal،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1049766

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Guo, Liang…[et al.]. Event-Based User Classification in Weibo Media. The Scientific World Journal No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1049766

American Medical Association (AMA)

Guo, Liang& Wang, Wendong& Cheng, Shiduan& Que, Xirong. Event-Based User Classification in Weibo Media. The Scientific World Journal. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1049766

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-1049766