Identifying contributory domain experts in online innovation communities

Tang, Hongting; Xu, Xiaoying; Li, Zhihong; Qin, Rui

doi:10.1007/s10660-022-09561-9

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“…Specifically, we extend the original LDA model based on two reasonable assumptions. First, threads with more user attention are more innovative and have a higher level of text quality (i.e., accuracy, credibility, objectivity, and usefulness) [36]. Second, titles are shorter and focus more on the main idea than dose the body of the thread.…”

Section: Innovation-lda Modelmentioning

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Identifying Valuable Knowledge Topics in Innovation Communities Using Innovation-LDA

Hongting Tang,

Yanlin Zhang

et al. 2023

Journal of Internet Technology

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<p>Researchers and practitioners have recognized that user-generated content in the innovation community plays an important role. However, it is challenging to automatically identify valuable knowledge from these unstructured texts. Thus, in this study, we propose an efficient model for extracting innovation-oriented topics and, simultaneously, for assigning discovered topics to each post in the online innovation community. Specifically, we introduce a variant of the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic model, called the Innovation-LDA model, which comprehensively considers users’ interests (reflected by pageviews and replies) and the structure of threads (e.g., header or body) to generate the valuable topics. We access the quality of discovered information through statistical fit as well as substantive fit. Based on our experimental results, we can conclude that our proposed method exhibits better performance than that of the contrasted method and can locate more meaningful innovation topics; that is, our innovation-LDA model is capable of not only identifying more rigorous topics for each thread by utilizing the text structure but is also capable of learning more semantic and coherent themes from user interests. This investigation expands topic identification research by providing both a new theoretical perspective and useful guidance for enterprises in product innovation.</p> <p> </p>

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Section: Innovation-lda Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%