Mining expertise and interests from social media

Ido Guy, Uri Avraham, David Carmel, Sigalit Ur, Michal Jacovi, Inbal Ronen

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Abstract

The rising popularity of social media in the enterprise presents new opportunities for one of the organization's most important needs-expertise location. Social media data can be very useful for expertise mining due to the variety of existing applications, the rich metadata, and the diversity of user associations with content. In this work, we provide an extensive study that explores the use of social media to infer expertise within a large global organization. We examine eight different social media applications by evaluating the data they produce through a large user survey, with 670 enterprise social media users. We distinguish between two semantics that relate a user to a topic: expertise in the topic and interest in it and compare these two semantics across the different social media applications. Copyright is held by the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages515-525
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9781450320351
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2013 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Duration: 13 May 201317 May 2013

Publication series

NameWWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2013
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CityRio de Janeiro
Period13/05/1317/05/13

Keywords

  • Enterprise
  • Enterprise 2.0
  • Expert finding
  • Expert recommendation
  • Expert search
  • Expertise location
  • Interest mining
  • People search
  • Social business
  • Social computing
  • Social media
  • Social software
  • Web 2.0

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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