Identification of experts and recommending new relationships in microblogging environments

  • Samantha Vrabl Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
  • Jonice Oliveira Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
  • Cláudia L. R. Motta Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Abstract


Microblogging offers fast, portable and organic information and can be considered as meaningful sources of learning. This article presents a social recommendation mechanism that, based on the temporal analysis of the messages, outlines the interest profile of the users, recommending new relationships, in order to help the learning process.

Keywords: Expert Identification, Link Prediction, Microblogging

References

Facebook (2011), [link], Abril.

Twitter (2011), [link], Abril.

Vrabl, S. (2011) “#twintera!: um modelo de combinação social usando microblogging”, Dissertação de Mestrado, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Informática, UFRJ, 2011.
Published
2012-07-17
VRABL, Samantha; OLIVEIRA, Jonice; MOTTA, Cláudia L. R.. Identification of experts and recommending new relationships in microblogging environments. In: BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND MINING (BRASNAM), 1. , 2012, Curitiba. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2012 . p. 224-227. ISSN 2595-6094.