A short-term trend prediction model of topic over Sina Weibo dataset

Juanjuan Zhao (), Weili Wu (), Xiaolong Zhang (), Yan Qiang (), Tao Liu () and Lidong Wu ()
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Juanjuan Zhao: Taiyuan University of Technology
Weili Wu: University of Texas at Dallas
Xiaolong Zhang: Pennsylvania State University
Yan Qiang: Taiyuan University of Technology
Tao Liu: Taiyuan University of Technology
Lidong Wu: University of Texas at Dallas

Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2014, vol. 28, issue 3, No 9, 613-625

Abstract: Abstract Microblog has become a popular social network service. It provides a new communication platform for information acquisition, sharing and spreading. In addition to presenting daily-life reports from users, microblog also reports unexpected events, which get broad attention. How to forecast such unexpected events as early as possible? In this paper, we propose a short-term trend prediction model of topics in Sina Weibo, the most popular microblog service in China. Based on real microblog data, we first analyze which Weibo data attributes have influence on the spreading of topics, and then build a topic spreading model. Further, we develop a model of short-term trend prediction of topics. With dataset from Weibo, we test our algorithm and analyze the experimental data which shows that the proposed model can give a short-term trend prediction of Weibo topic.

Keywords: Social networks; Sina Weibo; Analysis of Weibo properties; Prediction model; Microblog (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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