Joint Embedding Models for Textual and Social Analysis

Chang Li     Yi-Yu Lai     Jennifer Neville     Dan Goldwasser    
The workshop on Deep Structured Prediction collocated with ICML, 2017
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Abstract

In online social networks, users openly interact, share content, and endorse each other. Although the data is interconnected, previous research has primarily focused on modeling the social network behavior separately from the textual content. Here we model the data in a holistic way, taking into account connections between social behavior and content. Specifically, we define multiple decision tasks over the relationships between users and the content generated by them. We show, on a real world dataset, that a learning a joint embedding (over user characteristics and language) and using joint prediction (based on intra- and inter-task constraints) produces consistent gains over (1) learning specialized embeddings, and (2) predicting locally w.r.t. a single task, with or without constraints


Bib Entry

  @article{LLNG_ws_2017,
    author = "Chang Li and Yi-Yu Lai and Jennifer Neville and Dan Goldwasser",
    title = "Joint Embedding Models for Textual and Social Analysis",
    booktitle = "The workshop on Deep Structured Prediction collocated with ICML",
    year = "2017"
  }