基于特定主题的社交网络影响力评估方法

针对用户在社交网络应用中的影响力评价方法，以往的研究重点关注网络结构和转发行为对用户影响力的影响，基于用户发布内容和主题的影响力评估研究较少，且未考虑主题间的交互关系.为此提出了一种半监督的主题提取方法，通过在初始化过程中引入种子词并赋予不同的权重，更好地提取目标主题.此外，为了提高用户影响力评估的效果，该文考虑了不同主题之间的交互，将主题之间的相似性叠加于用户相似性的计算.在真实数据上的实验结果验证了所提方法的有效性.

Topic-Specific Assessment Approach for Social Network Influence Evaluation

Previous studies on user influence modeling in social networks mostly depend on user friendship network structures and retweeting behaviors. It lacks of the consideration of contents and topics of the tweets, which may also play important roles. In addition, taking the interaction among topics into account would facilitate a more accurate user influence modeling. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised topic extraction method, which brings in a set of seed words during initialization and assigns these seed words higher weights than other words, to improve the effectiveness of topic extraction. To better model the user influence, we involve the interactions among topics, and combine the similarity of topics together with the similarity of users. Experimental results on real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed methods.