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On Predicting Religion Labels In Microblogging Networks, Minh Thap Nguyen, Ee Peng Lim
On Predicting Religion Labels In Microblogging Networks, Minh Thap Nguyen, Ee Peng Lim
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Religious belief plays an important role in how people behave, influencing how they form preferences, interpret events around them, and develop relationships with others. Traditionally, the religion labels of user population are obtained by conducting a large scale census study. Such an approach is both high cost and time consuming. In this paper, we study the problem of predicting users' religion labels using their microblogging data. We formulate religion label prediction as a classification task, and identify content, structure and aggregate features considering their self and social variants for representing a user. We introduce the notion of representative user to …
On Predicting User Affiliations Using Social Features In Online Social Networks, Minh Thap Nguyen
On Predicting User Affiliations Using Social Features In Online Social Networks, Minh Thap Nguyen
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
User profiling such as user affiliation prediction in online social network is a challenging task, with many important applications in targeted marketing and personalized recommendation. The research task here is to predict some user affiliation attributes that suggest user participation in different social groups.