4. Contributions
• Topic latent factors to capture users’ interests
• Social latent factors to model social relations
• Incorporate Explicit features
• Build on traditional collaborative ranking
approach
5. Assumptions
• Users’ retweeting actions reflect their personal
judgement of informativeness and usefulness.
• Users who have retweeted similar statuses in the
past are likely to retweet similar statuses in the
future.
14. Incorporating Features
Features
• Relation features
▫ Co-follow scores
▫ Mention scores
# of times user u has mentioned publisher p
▫ Friend
binary indicator
u <-> p
19. Dataset
• 8059 users in the base with all statuses
▫ Select 1048 users: > 15 followees
▫ one (+) vs. four (-)
▫ 490 tweets on average per user
▫ 409680 (4/5) in training
▫ 102457 (1/5) for testing