Recommendation systems, Information filtering, Collaborative filtering, Content-based filtering
GlossaryRecommender System (RS): Special type of information filtering system that provides a prediction that assists the user in evaluating items from a large collection that the user is likely to find interesting or useful.Status update (micropost): Short message, shared in an online social platform, expressing an activity, state of mind or opinion.Folksonomy: Whole set of tags that constitutes an unstructured collaborative knowledge classification scheme in a social tagging system. what online news to read [19], or, in the social network domain, which user to connect to or which users to consider as a trustful adviser.
Overview Main Components of a Web 2.0 Social NetworkA social network can be defined as a set of entities interconnected and it is usually represented as a graph where the entities are described by nodes and their relationships by links. It should be noticed that this concept is not limited to the case of online social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace or Twitter, the main focus of our work.A common characteristic of these networks, and more specifically modern online social networks, is that they are composed of (i) users (with a user profile, activities and connections) and (ii) social objects representing the intermediations, e.g. topics of user interactions, shared videos, photos.The user profile generally includes static personal information, such as the name, email and address, as well as more dynamic information about the interests and information needs of the user. The role of the user profile is essential in online communities.Generally user profiles are different from one application to another, as users present themselves differently, based on the targeted population of the given application (which are sometimes very specific). Another dimension of users is represented by the activities they perform in the social platform. This includes content sharing, media uploading 3 and content description (such as photo tagging). Finally, the third dimension of users is represented by the social connections they establish with others in the network. Users in these online networks are generally connected to different communities, belonging to different social spheres (e.g., friends, family, coworkers).Another important user characteristic is related to trust. Indeed, the different applications on social content sites allow users to be closer to their communities and to be aware of peer activities and opinions. This brings new dimensions to trust and allows users to have higher confidence in the recommendations, suggestions and sentiment of friends.Shared social objects influence interactions between users. An object in this context has a concrete and perceptible, physical and/or numeric, manifestation. Some objects are the source of conversational interactions and keepers of collective attention.They constitute a conversation support. In our actual digital context objects are mainly multimed...