Activity Recognition in Social Networks: A List of Relevant Papers

 

 

 

This webpage is maintained by Yin Zhu , and will be updated regularly (last updated on 25 Sep 2012, with new papers published in major conferences).

 

If you have any suggestions, please feel free to send emails to zhuyin.nju AT gmail DOT com.

 

Yin thanks Xing Xie, Nathan Liu, Xiao Wang, Haipeng Zhang, Derek Hao Hu and Prof. Qiang Yang for suggestions and discussions on this list.

 

2012

AAAI’12 Program.

 

Yin Zhu, Xiao Wang, ErhengZhong, NathanN. Liu, He Li and QiangYang. Discovering Spammers in Social Networks. AAAI.

 

Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz and Vincent Silenzio. Predicting Disease Transmission from Geo-Tagged Micro-Blog Data. AAAI.

 

Yuheng Hu, Ajita John, Fei Wang and Subbarao Kambhampati. ET-LDA: Joint Topic Modeling for Aligning Events and their Twitter Feedback. AAAI.

 

KDD’12 Paper List.

 

Erheng Zhong, Wei Fan, Junwei Wang, Lei Xiao and Yong Li. ComSoc: Adaptive Transfer of User Behaviors across Composite Social Networks. KDD.

 

Ashton Anderson, Dan Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec. Discovering Value from Community Activity on Focused Question-Answering Sites: A Case Study of Stack Overflow. KDD.

 

Seth Myers, Chengguang Zhu, Jure Leskovec. Information Diffusion and External Influence in Networks. KDD.

 

Xingjie Liu, QI HE, Yuanyuan Tian, Wang-Chien Lee, John McPherson, Jiawei Han. Event-based Social Networks: Linking the Online and Offline Social Worlds. KDD.

 

Diego Saez-Trumper, Giovanni Comarela, Virgilio Almeida, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Fabricio Benevenuto. Finding Trendsetters in Information Networks. KDD.

 

U Kang, Evangelos Papalexakis and Abhay Harpale. GigaTensor: Scaling Tensor Analysis Up By 100 Times - Algorithms and Discoveries. KDD.

 

Qi Ding, Natallia Katenka, Paul Barford, Eric Kolaczyk and Mark Crovella. Intrusion as (Anti)social Communication: Characterization and Detection. KDD.

 

Alan Ritter, Mausam Mausam, Oren Etzioni and Sam Clark. Open Domain Event Extraction from Twitter. KDD.

 

Sihong Xie, Guan Wang, Shuyang Lin, Philip S Yu. Review Spam Detection via Temporal Pattern Discovery. KDD.

 

Rui Li, Shengjie Wang, Hongbo Deng and Kevin Chang. Towards Social User Profiling: Unified and Discriminative Influence Model for Inferring Home Locations. KDD.

 

Jing Yuan, Yu Zheng and Xing Xie. Discovering Regions of Different Functions in a City Using Human Mobility and POIs. KDD.

 

UbiComp’12 Program.

 

Jacopo Staiano, Bruno Lepri, Nadav Aharony, Fabio Pianesi, Nicu Sebe, Alex Pentland. Friends don't Lie: Inferring Personality Traits from Social Network Structure. UbiComp.

 

WSDM’12 Program.

 

Hanqiang Cheng, Yu-Li Liang, Xinyu Xing, Xue Liu, Richard Han, Qin Lv and Shivakant Mishra. Efficient misbehaving user detection in online video chat services. WSDM.

 

Ravi Kant, Srinivasan Sengamedu and Krishnan Kumar. Comment Spam Detection by Sequence Mining. WSDM.

 

Oren Tsur and Ari Rappoport. What's in a Hashtag? Content based Prediction of the Spread of Ideas in Microblogging Communities. WSDM.

 

Yang Liu, Roy Chen, Yan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei and Suzy Salib. I Loan Because...": Understanding Motivations for Pro-Social Lending. WSDM.

 

Eduardo Ruiz, Vagelis Hristidis, Carlos Castillo, Aristides Gionis and Alejandro Jaimes. Correlating Financial Time Series with Micro-Blogging Data. WSDM.

 

John Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher and Georgios Zervas. Daily Deals: Prediction, Social Diffusion, and Reputational Ramifications. WSDM.

 

Hila Becker, Dan Iter, Mor Naaman and Luis Gravano. Identifying Content for Planned Events Across Social Media Sites. WSDM.

 

Peifeng Yin, Ping Luo, Min Wang and Wang-Chien Lee. A Straw Shows Which Way the Wind Blows: Potential Popularity Ranking from Early Votes. WSDM.

 

Marisa Vasconcelos, Saulo Ricci, Jussara Almeida, Fabricio Benevenuto and Virgilio Almeida. Tips, Dones and ToDos: Uncovering User Profiles in Foursquare. WSDM.

 

Sanjay Kairam, Dan Wang and Jure Leskovec. The Life and Death of Online Groups: Predicting Group Growth and Longevity. WSDM.

 

Rina Panigrahy, Marc Najork and Yinglian Xie. How User Behavior is Related to Social Affinity. WSDM.

 

Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz and Jeffrey Bigham. Finding Your Friends and Following Them to Where You Are. WSDM.

 

Yaron Singer. How to Win Friends and Influence People, Truthfully: Influence Maximization Mechanisms for Social Networks. WSDM.

 

RecSys’12 Program.

 

Xiaolan Sha, Daniele Quercia, Matteo Dell'Amico and Pietro Michiardi. Spotting Trends: The wisdom of the few. RecSys. Slides.

 

Smriti Bhagat, Udi Weinsberg, Stratis Ioannidis and Nina Taft. BlurMe: Inferring and Obfuscating User Demographics Based on Ratings. RecSys.

 

Diego Saez-Trumper, Daniele Quercia and Jon Crowcroft. Ads and the City: Considering Geographic Distance Goes a Long Way. RecSys.

 

SIGIR’12 Paper List.

 

Paul N Bennett, Ryen White, Wei Chu, Susan Dumais, Peter Bailey, Fedor Borisyuk and Xiaoyuan Cui. Modeling and Measuring the Impact of Short and Long-Term Behavior on Search Personalization. SIGIR.

 

Ryen White and Eric Horvitz. Studies of the Onset and Persistence of Medical Concerns in Search Logs. SIGIR.

 

Marc Najork. Detecting Quilted Web Pages at Scale. SIGIR.

Chao Wei, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma and Liyun Ru. Fighting against Web Spam: A Novel Propagation Method based on Click-through Data. SIGIR.

 

Zhiheng Zu and Qing Yang. Modeling User Posting Behavior on Social Media. SIGIR.

 

Adam Rae, Vanessa Murdock, Hugues Bouchard and Adrian Popescu.  Mining the Web for Points of Interest. SIGIR. Slides.

 

Maik Anderka, Benno Stein and Nedim Lipka. Predicting Quality Flaws in User-generated Content: The Case of Wikipedia. SIGIR.

 

WWW’12 Main Track.

 

Haiping Ma, Huanhuan Cao, Qiang Yang, Enhong Chen and Jilei Tian. A Habit Mining Approach for Discovering Similar Mobile Users. WWW.

 

Sibel Adali, Fred Sisenda and Malik Magdon-Ismail. Actions speak as loud as words: Predicting relationships from social behavior data. WWW.

 

Chao Yang, Robert Harkreader, Jialong Zhang, Suengwon Shin and Guofei Gu. Analyzing Spammers’ Social Networks For Fun and Profit — A Case Study of Cyber Criminal Ecosystem on Twitter. WWW.

 

Flavio Chierichetti, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan and Tamas Sarlos. Are Web users really Markovian? WWW.

 

Jeremy Blackburn, Ramanuja Simha, Nicolas Kourtellis, Xiang Zuo, Matei Ripeanu, John Skvoretz and Adriana Iamnitchi. Branded with a Scarlet « C »: Cheaters in a Gaming Social Network. WWW.

 

Liangjie Hong, Amr Ahmed, Siva Gurumurthy, Alex Smola and Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis. Discovering Geographical Topics from Twitter Streams. WWW.

 

Robert West and Jure Leskovec. Human Wayfinding in Information Networks. WWW.

 

Kira Radinsky, Krysta Svore, Susan Dumais, Jaime Teevan, Eric Horvitz and Alex Bocharov. Learning and Predicting Behavioral Dynamics on the Web. WWW.

 

Kira Radinsky, Sagie Davidovich and Shaul Markovitch. Learning Causality for News Events Prediction. WWW.

 

Dafna Shahaf and Carlos Guestrin. Trains of Thought: Generating Information Maps. WWW.

 

Saptarshi Ghosh, Bimal Viswanath, Farshad Kooti, Naveen Kumar Sharma, Korlam Gautam, Fabricio Benevenuto, Niloy Ganguly and Krishna Gummadi. Understanding and Combating Link Farming in the Twitter Social Network. WWW.

 

Mrinmaya Sachan, Danish Contractor, Tanveer Faruquie and L. V. Subramaniam. Using Content and Interactions for Discovering Communities in Social Networks. WWW.

 

Lei Yang, Tao Sun and Qiaozhu Mei. We Know What @You #Tag: Does the Dual Role Affect Hashtag Adoption? WWW.

 

Anders Brodersen, Salvatore Scellato and Mirjam Wattenhofer. YouTube Around the World: Geographic Popularity of Videos. WWW.

 

Kenneth Joseph, Chun How Tan and Kathleen M. Carley. Beyond "Local", "Categories" and "Friends": Clustering foursquare Users with Latent "Topics". LBSN.

 

ICWSM’12 Datasets. ICWSM’12 Program.

 

Song Feng, Longfei Xing, Anupam Gogar and Yejin Choi. Distributional Footprints of Deceptive Product Reviews. ICWSM. Video

 

Emre Kıcıman. OMG, I Have to Tweet That! A Study of Factors that Influence Tweet Rates. ICWSM. Slides. 

 

Minkyoung Kim, Lexing Xie, Peter Christen. Event Diffusion Patterns in Social Media. ICWSM.

 

L. M. Aiello, M. Deplano, R. Schifanella, G. Ruffo. People are Strange when you're a Stranger: Impact and Influence of Bots on Social Networks. ICWSM. More.

 

Karthik Dinakar , Birago Jones , Henry Lieberman , Rosalind Picard , Carolyn, Matthew Thoman, Roi Reichart. You Too?! Mixed-Initiative LDA Story Matching to Help Teens in Distress. ICWSM.

 

Aditya Pal, Shuo Chang and Joseph A. Konstan. Evolution of Experts in Question Answering Communities. ICWSM.

 

Sharad Goel (Yahoo! Research), Jake M. Hofman (Yahoo! Research), M. Irmak Sirer. Who Does What on the Web: A Large-Scale Study of Browsing Behavior. ICWSM. Video

 

Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz and Vincent Silenzio. Modeling Spread of Disease from Social Interactions. ICWSM.

 

Akshay Patil, Juan Liu, Bob Price, Hossam Sharara, and Oliver Brdiczka. Modeling Destructive Group Dynamics in On-line Gaming Communities. ICWSM.

 

Mirjam Wattenhofer, Roger Wattenhofer and Zack Zhu. The YouTube Social Network. ICWSM.

 

Mor Naaman, Amy X Zhang, Samuel Brody and Gilad Lotan. On the Study of Diurnal Urban Routines on Twitter. ICWSM.

 

 

2011

 

 

Scott A. Golder and Michael W. Macy. Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Vary with Work, Sleep, and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures. Science.

   

Zhijun Yin, Liangliang Cao, Jiawei Han, Chengxiang Zhai, Thomas Huang. Geographical Topic Discovery and Comparison. WWW.

 

Brendan Meeder, Brian Karrer, Amin Sayedi, R Ravi, Christian Borgs, Jennifer Chayes. We Know Who You Followed Last Summer: Inferring Social Link Creation Times In Twitter. WWW.

 

Shaomei Wu, Jake M. Hofman, Winter Mason, Duncan J. Watts. Who Says What to Whom on Twitter. WWW.

 

Carlos Castillo, Marcelo Mendoza, Bárbara Poblete. Information Credibility on Twitter. WWW.

 

Nicholas D. Lane, Ye Xu, Hong Lu, Shaohan Hu, Tanzeem Choudhury, Andrew T. Campbell, and Feng Zhao. Enabling Large-scale Human Activity Inference on Smartphones using Community Similarity Networks (CSN). UbiComp.

 

Alberto Rosi, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli, Simon Dobson, Graeme Stevenson and Juan Ye. Social sensors and pervasive services: Approaches and perspectives. Pervasive.

 

Elad Yom-Tov and Fernando Diaz. Out of sight, not out of mind: on the effect of social and physical detachment on information need. SIGIR.

 

Mao Ye, Peifeng Yin, Wang-Chien Lee and Dik Lun Lee. Exploiting geographical influence for collaborative point-of-interest recommendation. SIGIR.

 

Defu Lian and Xing Xie. Learning location naming from user check-in histories. ACM-GIS.

 

Mao Ye, Krzysztof Janowicz, Wang-Chien Lee and Christoph Mulligann. What You Are is When You Are - The Temporal Dimension of Feature Types in Location-based Social Networks. GIS.

 

Eiji Aramaki, Sachiko Maskawa and Mizuki Morita. Twitter Catches The Flu: Detecting Influenza Epidemics using Twitter. EMNLP.

 

Kazufumi Watanabe, Masanao Ochi, Makoto Okabe and Rikio Onai.. Jasmine: a real-time local-event detection system based on geolocation information propagated to microblogs. CIKM.

 

Brent Hecht, Lichan Hong, Bongwon Suh and Ed H. Chi. Tweets from Justin Bieber's heart: the dynamics of the location field in user profiles. CHI.

 

Zhi Yang, Christo Wilson, Xiao Wang, Tingting Gao, Ben Y. Zhao and Yafei Dai. Uncovering Social Network Sybils in the Wild. IMC.

 

Johan Bollen, Huina Mao and Alberto Pepe. Modeling Public Mood and Emotion:Twitter Sentiment and Socio-Economic Phenomena. ICWSM.

 

Michael J. Paul and Mark Dredze. You Are What You Tweet: Analyzing Twitter for Public Health. ICWSM.

 

Jianshu Weng and Bu-Sung Lee. Event Detection in Twitter. ICWSM.

 

J. Ratkiewicz, M. D. Conover, M. Meiss, B. Gonc¸alves, A. Flammini, F. Menczer. Detecting and Tracking Political Abuse in Social Media. ICWSM.

 

Timm O. Sprenger and Isabell M. Welpe. News or Noise? The stock market reaction to different types of company-specific news events. Working paper.

 

Ryong Lee, Shoko Wakamiya and Kazutoshi Sumiya. Discovery of unusual regional social activities using geo-tagged microblogs. J. World Wide Web.

 

Johan Bollen, Huina Mao and Xiaojun Zeng. Twitter mood predicts the stock market. Journal of Computational Science, March 2011. Project website.

 

Mor Naaman, Hila Becker and Luis Gravano. Hip and trendy: Characterizing emerging trends on Twitter. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

 

Jeff Cox and Beth Plale. Improving Automatic Weather Observations with the Public Twitter Stream. IUB Technical Report, TR691.

 

Jun Huang and Mizuho Iwaihara. Realtime Social Sensing of Support Rate for Microblogging. DASFA.

 

Yegin Genc, Yasuaki Sakamoto, and Jeffrey V. Nickerson. Discovering Context: Classifying Tweets through a Semantic Transform Based on Wikipedia. FAC.

 

Alan Ritter, Sam Clark, Mausam and Oren Etzioni. Extracting a Calendar from Twitter. Project website.

 

Bin Xu, Alvin Chin, Hao Wang, Hao Wang and Li Zhang. Social Linking and Physical Proximity in a Mobile Location-based Service. Ubicomp Workshop-MLBS.

 

Scott B. Weingart. Topic Modeling and Network Analysis. Blog article.

 

 

 

2010

 

Zhiyuan Cheng, James Caverlee, and Kyumin Lee. You are where you tweet: a content-based approach to geolocating twitter users. CIKM.

 

Sitaram Asur and Bernardo A. Predicting the Future With Social Media. HP Lab Technical Report, HPL-2010-53.

 

Vasileios Lampos, Tijl De Bie and Nello Cristianini. Flu Detector - Tracking Epidemics on Twitter. ECML/PKDD.

 

Sharad Goel, Jake M. Hofman, Sébastien Lahaie, David M. Pennock, and  Duncan J. Watts. Predicting consumer behavior with Web search. PANS.


David J. Crandall, Lars Backstrom, Dan Cosleyc, Siddharth Suri, Daniel Huttenlocher, and Jon Kleinberg. Inferring social ties from geographic coincidences. PANS.

 

Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki and Yutaka Matsuo. Earthquake Shakes Twitter Users: Real-time Event Detection by Social Sensors. WWW.

 

Steffen Rendle, Christoph Freudenthaler and Lars Schmidt-Thieme. Factorizing personalized Markov chains for next-basket recommendation. WWW.

 

Lars Backstrom, Eric Sun and Cameron Marlow. Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity. WWW.

 

Tom Lovett, Eamonn O'Neill, James Irwin and  David Pollington. The Calendar as a Sensor: Analysis and Improvement Using Data Fusion with Social Networks and Location. UbiComp.

 

Andranik Tumasjan, Timm O. Sprenger, Philipp G. Sandner, Isabell M. Welpe. Predicting elections with twitter: What 140 characters reveal about political sentiment. ICWSM.

 

Aron Culotta. Towards detecting influenza epidemics by analyzing Twitter messages. SOMA.

 

Marti Motoyama, Brendan Meeder, Kirill Levchenko, Geoffrey M. Voelker and Stefan Savage. Measuring Online Service Availability Using Twitter. WOSN.

 

Jianshu Weng, Ee-Peng Lim, Qi He, and Cane Wing-Ki Leung. What Do People Want in Microblogs? Measuring Interestingness of Hashtags in Twitter. ICDM.