Mining User Relations from Online Discussions using Sentiment Analysis and Probabilistic Matrix Factorization

• Main Authors: QIU, Minghui, YANG, Liu, JIANG, Jing
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1891; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2890/viewcontent/N13_1041.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Advances in sentiment analysis have enabled extraction of user relations implied in online textual exchanges such as forum posts. However, recent studies in this direction only consider direct relation extraction from text. As user interactions can be sparse in online discussions, we propose to appl...