Document Type
Journal Article
Department/Unit
Department of Computer Science
Title
The author-topic-community model for author interest profiling and community discovery
Language
English
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a generative model named the author-topic-community (ATC) model for representing a corpus of linked documents. The ATC model allows each author to be associated with a topic distribution and a community distribution as its model parameters. A learning algorithm based on variational inference is derived for the model parameter estimation where the two distributions are essentially reinforcing each other during the estimation. We compare the performance of the ATC model with two related generative models using first synthetic data sets and then real data sets, which include a research community data set, a blog data set, a news-sharing data set, and a microblogging data set. The empirical results obtained confirm that the proposed ATC model outperforms the existing models for tasks such as author interest profiling and author community discovery. We also demonstrate how the inferred ATC model can be used to characterize the roles of users/authors in online communities.
Keywords
Graphical models, Author community discovery, Author interest profiling, Variational inference
Publication Date
8-2015
Source Publication Title
Knowledge and Information Systems
Volume
44
Issue
2
Start Page
359
End Page
383
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Peer Reviewed
1
Funder
C. Li’s research is supported in part by NSFC under Grant No. 61370213, National Key Technology R&D Program No. 2012BAH10F03, 2013BAH17F00, Shenzhen Strategic Emerging Industries Program under Grant No. JCYJ20120613150552967 and Science and Technology Development of Shandong Province Nos. 2010GZX20126, 2010GGX10116.
DOI
10.1007/s10115-014-0764-9
Link to Publisher's Edition
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10115-014-0764-9
ISSN (print)
02191377
ISSN (electronic)
02193116
APA Citation
Li, C., Cheung, W., Ye, Y., Zhang, X., Chu, D., & Li, X. (2015). The author-topic-community model for author interest profiling and community discovery. Knowledge and Information Systems, 44 (2), 359-383. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-014-0764-9