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Special Topics: Social Media Mining and Analysis

344.044, KV, 2h (3.0 ECTS), WS 2015/16

Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Markus Schedl

Time: Monday, 13:45-15:15
Start: Monday, Oct. 12, 2015
Location: MT 128

This class will be taught in English.

Description

This course will be held foremost as an exercise in which students will implement and refine existing approaches to a task in context of social media mining or analysis. The work will be conducted in teams, each of which will select a topic to work on. The requirements to complete the course (and earn a positive grade) are the following:

gaining an understanding of the selected task and existing solutions
conducting a literature research and writing a short report about existing work on the topic (max. 5 pages)
implementing and evaluating a refined version of an existing approach (or an innovate novel approach)
giving a presentation of the topic, implemented approach/solution, and its evaluation (about 30 minutes per team)
writing a scientific article about the approach in the style of a conference submission (about 10 pages)

Topics students can choose from include, but are not limited to the following (own suggestions are welcome too):

influential user detection
network structure analysis
sentiment analysis
flow analysis
analyzing aspects such as similarity or diversity in user preferences
categorization of users from their digital traces (demographics, mood, personality, habbits, etc.)
trend detection and popularity prediction
localizing microblog messages or other multimedia material
event detection
country of origin detection (for persons, music artists, bands, or other items)

Many other possible topics can be derived, for instance, from the proceedings of the ICWSM conference:
    http://icwsm.org/2015/program/program
    http://icwsm.org/2014/program/program
    ...

Also the following book gives an overview about basics in mining user-generated content:
    Marie-Francine Moens, Juanzi Li, Tat-Seng Chua (eds.), Mining of User Generated Content and Its Applications, CRC Press, January 2014.

Schedule

The detailed schedule can be found on the course's KUSSS web page.

last edited by ms on Aug 21, 2015