{"title":"Connecting the dots to infer followers' topical interest on Twitter","authors":"Aastha Nigam, Salvador Aguiñaga, N. Chawla","doi":"10.1109/BESC.2016.7804498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BESC.2016.7804498","url":null,"abstract":"Twitter provides a platform for information sharing and diffusion, and has quickly emerged as a mechanism for organizations to engage with their consumers. A driving factor for engagement is providing relevant and timely content to users. We posit that the engagement via tweets offers a good potential to discover user interests and leverage that information to target specific content of interest. To that end, we have developed a framework that analyzes tweets to identify the interests of current followers and leverages topic models to deliver a personalized topic profile for each user. We validated our framework by partnering up with a local media company and analyzing the content gap between them and their followers. We also developed a mobile application that incorporates the proposed framework.","PeriodicalId":225942,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122319233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning text to model: A Bayesian network based L-system modeling strategy","authors":"Cheng Chen, G. Ji, Bin Zhao","doi":"10.1109/BESC.2016.7804496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BESC.2016.7804496","url":null,"abstract":"L-system is a prevailing modeling method for generating fractals, especially self-similar patterns such as plants. However it's too hard to design an appropriate L-system to get the desired visual models of plants. In order to generate a favorable plant model, usually we need to deduce backwards or guess the production rules of the L-system and then try to modify some control parameters over and over again. Inspired by information extraction technology, we propose a new strategy to model visual plants. We use Bayesian Networks to extract structured information describing the plant characters from user given text first, then we use that information to automatically generate an L-system alphabet, axiom and production rules. Comprehensive experimental evaluation conducted on real botanic text corpora demonstrates that our proposal is very helpful in artistic plants modelling.","PeriodicalId":225942,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132988550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on interpretation of nominal compound","authors":"Weiguang Qu, Rubing Dai, Taizhong Wu, Min Gu, Yanhui Gu, Junsheng Zhou","doi":"10.1109/BESC.2016.7804478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BESC.2016.7804478","url":null,"abstract":"Nominal compounds which constituted of two nouns together are very common in reading materials or web pages. The interpretation of these compounds can help us know the meaning of a text or sentences. Traditional approaches utilized the method based on verbs and rules to obtain the interpretation of compounds with low recall. So we investigate an interpretation method based on similarity which makes use of the interpretation templates and similar words to achieve the automatic interpretation. Experimental results show that our method can interpret these nominal compounds with a relatively high precision (84.91%), give an increase of 10.48% in recall than the general method, which contributes to the overall nominal compound recall improvement significantly.","PeriodicalId":225942,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC)","volume":"338 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134286516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An effective system for managing biological data","authors":"Qian Li, Zhenglu Yang, W. Cao, K. Shimizu","doi":"10.1109/BESC.2016.7804492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BESC.2016.7804492","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, life scientists grapple with a problem how to fast and easily access/obtain high quality data, especially for a specific research area, from a large amount of biological data deposited in public databases. In this work, we developed an effective system for managing biological data which are a class of functionally important membrane protein; they are hard to collected from the existing databases for slow progress of protein annotations, transitive annotation problem as well as low sequence similarity among them. Our preliminary system was designed with a user-friendly web interface and provides: 1) keywords retrieval against the annotation information of protein sequences, 2) recommendation of the related publications to help researchers conduct effective comparisons of experimental results with convenience, and 3) sequence alignment service (BLAST-based by NCBI blast+ and Hidden Markov Model-based by HMMER3.0). We had conducted a statistical analysis and showed it to the researchers in a visual way.","PeriodicalId":225942,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121047359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using media-based emotion to predict commodity price","authors":"Jiancheng Shen, Feng Dong, Wu He","doi":"10.1109/BESC.2016.7804491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BESC.2016.7804491","url":null,"abstract":"Emotion plays a significant role in consumer decision making. We recently conducted a study to explore how media-based information of aggregated market emotion influences consumers' expected demand of commodities, and how businesses can use media-based emotion indices to predict commodities' price. We implemented time series econometrics by analyzing a fourteen year daily observations of twelve major energy and material commodities prices and five market-level emotion indices (buzz, sentiment, optimism, fear and joy). The empirical results suggest that high-arousal emotion from all groups of individuals tend to reach consensus at the market level in its effect on commodity price. The study also provides evidence that there is a short term predictive relationship between the media-based emotion indices and the following five days' commodity prices.","PeriodicalId":225942,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115032763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards effective web page classification","authors":"Min Gu, Feng Zhu, Qing Guo, Yanhui Gu, Junsheng Zhou, Weiguang Qu","doi":"10.1109/BESC.2016.7804494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BESC.2016.7804494","url":null,"abstract":"In order to manage and organize information on the web, we propose a novel web page classification strategy integrating topic model and SVM. We use topic model to harness the implicit information on web pages for feature extraction. Accuracy of the strategy is 84.15%, 2.23% superior to the traditional classification strategy based on CHI.","PeriodicalId":225942,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116750281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comparison study of semi-supervised SVM algorithms for small business credit prediction","authors":"Jie Zhang, Lin Li, Ge Zhu, Xiangfu Meng, Qing Xie","doi":"10.1109/BESC.2016.7804484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BESC.2016.7804484","url":null,"abstract":"The small companies become increasingly important in bank's lending business. But the challenge is how bank's credit assessment is made in a small amount of time and money. Compare with the big companies, the small companies often need a small amount of cash flow. They may not provide the complete certificates or documents, so that the bank has to collect information of the companies and evaluate their credit rating especially by experts. For the bank, it is worthless to spend time and money to investigate a small company, especially just to lend several hundred thousand dollars. In the real life, credits of most the companies are good, while only small of them cannot repay for some reasons. The few number of small companies' credit data is valuable while considerable unknowing credit data of small companies is within reach. Therefore, the binary classification of the good credit and the bad credit is asymmetry. we choose supervised learning algorithm (Regularized Least Squares Classification and SVM) and semi-supervised learning algorithm (Transductive SVM and Deterministic Annealing Semi-supervised SVM) to predict the credits of small companies. In this paper, we conduct a series of experiments on credit datasets with different proportion classification and the results show that the Deterministic Annealing Semi-supervised SVM (DAS3VM) performance better when the data set is rare and asymmetry.","PeriodicalId":225942,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128988157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parallelizing label propagation for overlapping community detection","authors":"N. Chen, Yun Liu, Junjun Cheng, Qing Liu","doi":"10.1109/BESC.2016.7804476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BESC.2016.7804476","url":null,"abstract":"Community detection is one of the most important ways that reflect the structure and mechanism beneath the social network. The overlapping communities are more in line with the reality of social network. In the society, the phenomenon of some members shared membership of different communities reflects as overlapping communities in the network. Facing big data network, it is a challenging and computationally complex problem to detect overlapping communities. In this paper, we proposed highly scalable variants of a community detection algorithm with parallelized called Label Propagation with nodes Confidence (PLPAC). We introduced MapReduce to parallelize the algorithm to process the big data and guarantee the efficient of community detection. We implemented the algorithm on real network and artificial network to evaluate the accuracy and speedup of the proposed algorithm. Experiments results on many test datasets illustrated that the improved label propagation method outperforms some existing methods in terms of accuracy and time efficiency.","PeriodicalId":225942,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131778191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An efficient and privacy-preserving ranked fuzzy keywords search over encrypted cloud data","authors":"S. Ding, Yidong Li, Jianhui Zhang, Liang Chen, Zhen Wang, Qunqun Xu","doi":"10.1109/BESC.2016.7804500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BESC.2016.7804500","url":null,"abstract":"As cloud computing becomes widespread, more and more users prefer to outsource their local sensitive data into the cloud. In order to protect data privacy, these sensitive data usually has to be encrypted before outsourcing, which makes effective data utilization a very difficult task. Although traditional searchable encryption techniques allow users to securely search over encrypted cloud data, they only support exact single keyword search, i.e. they do not allow any minor spelling errors or format inconsistencies. Besides, these traditional schemes support only Boolean search, without capturing any relevance of data files and rarely sort the search result. Recently, fuzzy keyword search over encrypted data techniques are introdeced to resolve the problem of spelling errors and format inconsistencis. However, they may incur large index size, search result inaccuracy and high search complexity, which greatly reduce the system usability and efficiency. In this paper, we propose the solution for privacy preserving ranked fuzzy keyword search over encrypted cloud data with small index. We use k-grams and Jaccard coefficient to constrcuct fuzzy keyword set and produce fuzzy results, and efficient relevance criteria (e.g., TF × IDF) to capture the relevance between data files and search requests. Extensive experiment result shows the efficiency of proposed scheme.","PeriodicalId":225942,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128689845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using mobile phone data to explore spatial-temporal evolution of home-based daily mobility patterns in Shanghai","authors":"Zhicheng Liu, Jinbin Yu, Weiting Xiong, Jian Lu, Junyan Yang, Qiao Wang","doi":"10.1109/BESC.2016.7804481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BESC.2016.7804481","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims at investigating home-based daily mobility patterns in Shanghai. The dataset consists of Data over Signaling (DoS) from 107,100 anonymous mobile phone subscribers in Shanghai over 9 days in different seasons, which contains spatial-temporal information of subscribers. Daily mobility pattern is characterized as motif of the individual's daily trajectory in this paper. Homes of subscribers are recognized with a priori knowledge. Motifs are extracted from each individuals' daily trajectories. In this way, we have revealed the spatial-temporal evolution of home-based daily mobility patterns in Shanghai. We find that the spatial distribution of home-based daily mobility patterns inside the enclosed area of Middle Ring Road in weekdays diffuses to the enclosed area of Outer Ring Road in weekends. However, the spatial distribution of home-based daily mobility patterns in the areas outside Outer Ring Road seems to be invariant to weekdays and weekends and is more active than that inside the enclosed area of Outer Ring Road. These active areas include affordable housing communities, such as New Gucun Big Homeland and Xinkai Homeland. The phenomenon presented in this paper may correlate with socioeconomic factors in different regions of Shanghai and worth further investigation.","PeriodicalId":225942,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125410205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}