Finding time-critical responses for information seeking in social media

Suhas Ranganath, Suhang Wang, Xia Hu, Jiliang Tang, Huan Liu

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Abstract

Social media is being increasingly used to request information and help in situations like natural disasters, where time is a critical commodity. However, generic social media platforms are not explicitly designed for timely information seeking, making it difficult for users to obtain prompt responses. Algorithms to ensure prompt responders for questions in social media have to understand the factors affecting their response time. In this paper, we draw from sociological studies on information seeking and organizational behavior to model the future availability and past response behavior of the candidate responders. We integrate these criteria with their interests to identify users who can provide timely and relevant responses to questions posted in social media. We propose a learning algorithm to derive optimal rankings of responders for a given question. We present questions posted on Twitter as a form of information seeking activity in social media. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework is useful in identifying timely and relevant responders for questions in social media.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2015
EditorsCharu Aggarwal, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Alexander Tuzhilin, Hui Xiong, Xindong Wu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages961-966
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467395038
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 5 2016
Event15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2015 - Atlantic City, United States
Duration: Nov 14 2015Nov 17 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM
Volume2016-January
ISSN (Print)1550-4786

Other

Other15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlantic City
Period11/14/1511/17/15

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Engineering

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