YouRank: Let User Engagement Rank Microblog Search Results

Authors

Wenbo Wang, Wright State University - Main Campus
Lei Duan
Anirudh Koul
Amit P. Sheth, Wright State University - Main CampusFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

6-2014

Abstract

We propose an approach for ranking microblog search results. The basic idea is to leverage user engagement for the purpose of ranking: if a microblog post received many retweets/replies, this means users find it important and it should be ranked higher. However, simply applying the raw count of engagement may bias the ranking by favoring posts from celebrity users whose posts generally receive a disproportionate amount of engagement regardless of the contents of posts. To reduce this bias, we propose a variety of time window-based outlier features that transfer the raw engagement count into an importance score, on a per user basis. The evaluation on five real-world datasets confirms that the proposed approach can be used to improve microblog search.

Comments

Presented at the 8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Ann Arbor, MI, June 1-4, 2014.

Repository Citation

Wang, W., Duan, L., Koul, A., & Sheth, A. P. (2014). YouRank: Let User Engagement Rank Microblog Search Results. Proceedings of the Eight International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 619-622.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/knoesis/579