The use of social media has been rapidly increasing in the last years. Social media, such as Twitter, has become an important source of information for a variety of people. The public availability of data describing some of these social networks has led to a great deal of research in this area. Link prediction, user classification and community detection are some of the main research areas related to social networks. In this paper, we present a user modeling framework that uses Wikipedia to model user interests inside a social network. Our model of user interests reflects the areas a user is interested in, as well as the level of expertise a user has in a certain field.
Authors: Patrick Siehndel, Ricardo Kawase
PDF: siehndel-iswc2012
Online Prototype: http://twikime.l3s.uni-hannover.de/twikime.php
Ricardo Kawase 