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Activation Mechanism for Recommending Appropriate Users and Comments on Wedding Community Sites

Authors:
Toshinori Hayashi
Yuanyuan Wang
Yukiko Kawai
Kazutoshi Sumiya

Keywords: user behavior analysis; wedding community site; communication.

Abstract:
In this paper, we present an active communication mechanism based on a user behavior analysis on wedding community websites. To this end, we propose a novel mechanism for the activation of user communications, which suggests other users and their related comments by detecting knowledge and interests from archived comments. Such information on a community website evokes conversations among users. We focus on a wedding community website in this study. The proposed mechanism consists of the following three components: 1) the profiling of user login information, such as users’ ages and locations, and extraction of user characteristics, such as their interests and intentions to communicate; 2) the detection and recommendation of users who are likely to communicate with each other; and 3) the recommendation of comments that may be of interest to a user. Through the proposed activation mechanism, users on a wedding community website can easily find other users who share similar experiences, and engage in active communication with them. We discuss our proposed user characteristic extraction and user recommendation methods using actual users’ posts from a wedding community website, and also discuss applications for e-learning. In addition, we evaluated the activation of user communications using our proposed system through interviews.

Pages: 134 to 144

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2017. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2017

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2652