2012
DOI: 10.1145/2337542.2337558
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Ranking User Influence in Healthcare Social Media

Abstract: Due to the revolutionary development of Web 2.0 technology, individual users have become major contributors of Web content in online social media. In light of the growing activities, how to measure a user's influence to other users in online social media becomes increasingly important. This research need is urgent especially in the online healthcare community since positive influence can be beneficial while negative influence may cause-negative impact on other users of the same community. In this article, a re… Show more

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“…The authority degree of users is then estimated by simultaneously using the authority scores of nodes in one graph to inform the other, and vice versa, in a mutually reinforcing fashion. Tang and Yang [2012] studied the problem of ranking user influence in online health care community. The proposed approach incorporates users' reply relationships, conversation content and response immediacy to build a weighted social network that represents influence between users.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…The authority degree of users is then estimated by simultaneously using the authority scores of nodes in one graph to inform the other, and vice versa, in a mutually reinforcing fashion. Tang and Yang [2012] studied the problem of ranking user influence in online health care community. The proposed approach incorporates users' reply relationships, conversation content and response immediacy to build a weighted social network that represents influence between users.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is worth noting that the estimation of the weights of the developed social network de-pends on two user supplied parameters. Experiments in [Tang and Yang 2012] suggest that the variation of the values of these parameters has a substantial impact on the accuracy of results. Agarwal et al [2012] studied the problem of identifying a ranked list of influential users in online community blogs.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Efforts are being devoted to a comprehensive operational framework that will connect networked biomedical components [Tang and Yang 2012;Lampos and Cristianini 2012]. The research will enable networks to seamlessly communicate and result in preventive and predictive practices with the three Ps: Personal, Proactive, and Precise, for example, rational combinatorial treatments, adaptive therapeutics, and patient-oriented disease management.…”
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confidence: 99%