Ranking tweets considering trust and relevance

  • Authors:
  • Srijith Ravikumar;Raju Balakrishnan;Subbarao Kambhampati

  • Affiliations:
  • Arizona State University, Tempe AZ;Arizona State University, Tempe AZ;Arizona State University, Tempe AZ

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The increasing popularity of Twitter and other microblogs makes improved trustworthiness and relevance assessment of microblogs evermore important. We propose a method of ranking of tweets considering trustworthiness and content based popularity. The analysis of trustworthiness and popularity exploits the implicit relationships between the tweets. We model microblog ecosystem as a three-layer graph consisting of: (i) users (ii) tweets and (iii) web pages. We propose to derive trust and popularity scores of entities in these three layers, and propagate the scores to tweets considering the inter-layer relations. Our preliminary evaluations show improvement in precision and trustworthiness over the baseline methods and acceptable computation timings.