In this paper, we study the problem of dynamic user profiling in Twitter. We address the problem by proposing a dynamic user and word embedding model (DUWE) and a streaming keyword diversification model (SKDM). DUWE dynamically tracks the semantic representations of users and words over time and models their embeddings in the same space so that their similarities can be effectively measured. We utilize Bamler and Mandt's skip-gram Filtering algorithm [4] for our inference, which works with a convex objective function that ensures the robustness of the learnt embeddings. SKDM aims at retrieving top-K relevant and diversified keywords to profile users' dynamic interests. Experiments on a Twitter dataset demonstrate that our proposed embedding algorithms outperform state-of-the-art non-dynamic and dynamic embedding and topic models.
In REF the authors propose a dynamic user and word embedding algorithm that can jointly and dynamically model user and word representations in the same semantic space.
Dynamic Embeddings for User Profiling in Twitter
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
Computer Science