Neural Temporal Opinion Modelling for Opinion Prediction on Twitter

Lixing Zhu, Yulan He, Deyu Zhou

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Computational Social Science and Social Media Short Paper

Session 7A: Jul 7 (08:00-09:00 GMT)
Session 8A: Jul 7 (12:00-13:00 GMT)
Abstract: Opinion prediction on Twitter is challenging due to the transient nature of tweet content and neighbourhood context. In this paper, we model users' tweet posting behaviour as a temporal point process to jointly predict the posting time and the stance label of the next tweet given a user's historical tweet sequence and tweets posted by their neighbours. We design a topic-driven attention mechanism to capture the dynamic topic shifts in the neighbourhood context. Experimental results show that the proposed model predicts both the posting time and the stance labels of future tweets more accurately compared to a number of competitive baselines.
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