Add to ORKGThe rise of social media provides a great opportunity for people to reach out to their social connections to satisfy their information needs. However, generic social media platforms are not explicitly designed to assist informa-tion seeking of users. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to identify the social connections of a user able to satisfy his information needs. The information need of a social media user is subjective and personal, and we investigate the utility of his social context to identify people able to satisfy it. We present questions users post on Twitter as instances of information seek-ing activities in social media. We infer soft community memberships of the asker and his social connections by integrating network ...
On-line social networking and communication services are increasingly popular methods to communicate...
Social networks offer multimedia information consumption and sharing with millions of people around ...
The widespread use of social networking websites in recent years has suggested a need for effective ...
The rise of social media provides a great opportunity for people to reach out to their social connec...
International audienceOnline social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn have become extre...
Proliferation of online social applications and platforms has generated enormous amounts of informat...
Proliferation of online social applications and platforms has generated enormous amounts of informat...
The emergence of social platforms has provided us with a vast amount of raw data on people's daily a...
Individuals' access to information in a social network depends on its distributed and where in the n...
In recent years, researchers, social commentators and the mass media have turned their attention to ...
In recent years, researchers, social commentators and the mass media have turned their attention to ...
This study is concerned with information seeking behaviors and strategies on Twitter, a microbloggin...
Background. Social media present a rich environment to study information behaviour, as much of the u...
The importance of social media keeps increasing in people’s daily life. Users not only generate info...
We propose a novel mechanism to infer topics of interest of individual users in the Twitter social n...
On-line social networking and communication services are increasingly popular methods to communicate...
Social networks offer multimedia information consumption and sharing with millions of people around ...
The widespread use of social networking websites in recent years has suggested a need for effective ...
The rise of social media provides a great opportunity for people to reach out to their social connec...
International audienceOnline social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn have become extre...
Proliferation of online social applications and platforms has generated enormous amounts of informat...
Proliferation of online social applications and platforms has generated enormous amounts of informat...
The emergence of social platforms has provided us with a vast amount of raw data on people's daily a...
Individuals' access to information in a social network depends on its distributed and where in the n...
In recent years, researchers, social commentators and the mass media have turned their attention to ...
In recent years, researchers, social commentators and the mass media have turned their attention to ...
This study is concerned with information seeking behaviors and strategies on Twitter, a microbloggin...
Background. Social media present a rich environment to study information behaviour, as much of the u...
The importance of social media keeps increasing in people’s daily life. Users not only generate info...
We propose a novel mechanism to infer topics of interest of individual users in the Twitter social n...
On-line social networking and communication services are increasingly popular methods to communicate...
Social networks offer multimedia information consumption and sharing with millions of people around ...
The widespread use of social networking websites in recent years has suggested a need for effective ...