Investigating topic models for social media user recommendation
Marco Pennacchiotti, Siva Gurumurthy · 2011
This paper presents a user recommendation system that recommends to a user new friends having similar interests. We automatically discover users' interests using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a linguistic topic model that represents users as mixtures of topics. Our system is able to recommend friends for 4 million users with high recall, outperforming existing strategies based on graph analysis.