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Leveraging Social Foci for Information Seeking in Social Media
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@MISC{Ranganath_leveragingsocial,
author = {Suhas Ranganath and Jiliang Tang and Xia Hu and Hari Sundaram and Huan Liu},
title = {Leveraging Social Foci for Information Seeking in Social Media},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The rise of social media provides a great opportunity for people to reach out to their social connections to satisfy their information needs. However, generic social media platforms are not explicitly designed to assist informa-tion seeking of users. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to identify the social connections of a user able to satisfy his information needs. The information need of a social media user is subjective and personal, and we investigate the utility of his social context to identify people able to satisfy it. We present questions users post on Twitter as instances of information seek-ing activities in social media. We infer soft community memberships of the asker and his social connections by integrating network and content information. Drawing
