Messages Ranking in Social Network

Part 8: Social NetworksInternational audienceNowadays, people engage more and more in social networks, such as Twitter, FaceBook, and Orkut, etc. In these social network sites, users create relationship with familiar or unfamiliar persons and share short messages between each other. One arising problem for these social networks is information is real-time and updates so quickly that users often feel lost in such huge information flow and struggle to find what really interest them. In this paper, we study the problem of personalized ranking in social network and use the SSRankBoost algorithm, a kind of pairwise learning to rank method to solve this problem. We evaluate our approach using a real microblog dataset for experiment and analyze the result empirically. The result shows clear improvement compared to those without ranking criteria. abstract environment