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It Is Not Just What We Say, But How We Say Them: Lda-Based Behavior-Topic Model, Minghui Qiu, Feida Zhu, Jing Jiang

Minghui QIU

Textual information exchanged among users on online social network platforms provides deep understanding into users' interest and behavioral patterns. However, unlike traditional text-dominant settings such as o ine publishing, one distinct feature for online social network is users' rich interactions with the textual content, which, unfortunately, has not yet been well incorporated in the existing topic modeling frameworks. In this paper, we propose an LDA-based behavior-topic model (B-LDA) which jointly models user topic interests and behavioral patterns. We focus the study of the model on online social network settings such as microblogs like Twitter where the textual content is relatively …