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Wisdom in sum of parts: Multi-platform activity prediction in social collaborative sites
WebSci' 18: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 27-30
  • Roy Ka-Wei LEE, Singapore Management University
  • David LO, Singapore Management University
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
5-2018
Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a novel framework which uses user interests inferred from activities (a.k.a., activity interests) in multiple social collaborative platforms to predict users’ platform activities. Included in the framework are two prediction approaches: (i) direct platform activity prediction, which predicts a user’s activities in a platform using his or her activity interests from the same platform (e.g., predict if a user answers a given Stack Overflow question using the user’s interests inferred from his or her prior answer and favorite activities in Stack Overflow), and (ii) cross-platform activity prediction, which predicts a user’s activities in a platform using his or her activity interests from another platform (e.g., predict if a user answers a given Stack Overflow question using the user’s interests inferred from his or her fork and watch activities in GitHub). To evaluate our proposed method, we conduct prediction experiments on two widely used social collaborative platforms in the software development community: GitHub and Stack Overflow. Our experiments show that combining both direct and cross platform activity prediction approaches yield the best accuracies for predicting user activities in GitHub (AUC=0.75) and Stack Overflow (AUC=0.89).

Keywords
  • GitHub; Social collaborative platforms,
  • Prediction,
  • Stack overflow
ISBN
9781450355636
Identifier
10.1145/3201064.3201067
Publisher
ACM
City or Country
New York
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/3201064.3201067
Citation Information
Roy Ka-Wei LEE and David LO. "Wisdom in sum of parts: Multi-platform activity prediction in social collaborative sites" WebSci' 18: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 27-30 (2018) p. 77 - 86
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