Learning Geo-Social User Topical Profiles with Bayesian Hierarchical User Factorization
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2018 ACM. Understanding user interests and expertise is a vital component toward creating rich user models for information personalization in social media, recommender systems and web search. To capture the pair-wise interactions between geo-location and user's topical profile in social-spatial systems, we propose the modeling of fine-grained and multi-dimensional user geo-topic profiles. We then propose a two-layered Bayesian hierarchical user factorization generative framework to overcome user heterogeneity and another enhanced model integrated with user's contextual information to alleviate multi-dimensional sparsity. Through extensive experiments, we find the proposed model leads to a 5 extasciitilde13% improvement in precision and recall over the alternative baselines and an addi ional 6 extasciitilde11% improvement with the integration of user's contexts.
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The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval