Social event magnitudes via background influences and engagement capacities and its applications

Kwei Guu Liu, Jyi Shane Liu

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Abstract

Outbreaks of social events can be viewed from two angles: anomalous changes of information or popular actions. Event detection algorithms focus on the former one, while the later one is measured by social event intensity, which is a rate to show how popular an action is in a social network at a given time. The rate is relatively intuitive and can give a holistic view about activity levels in a network, but its estimation isn't easy. Inspired by event detection algorithms, this study proposes an alternative measure, social event magnitude, by using the product of background influence and cooperation value. Background influence is extracted via non-backtracking matrices, and cooperation value is obtained via engagement capacities. This alternative measure does not just integrate multisource information, but also gives a holistic view about activity levels in a network. Social event magnitudes follow a long-tailed distribution; they can be visualized for changing activities and can be applied to online event detections.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, WIMS 2019
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450361903
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 26 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, WIMS 2019 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: Jun 26 2019Jun 28 2019

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, WIMS 2019
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period6/26/196/28/19

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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