In our most recent study, we analysed the user behaviour and profile, as well as the textual and visual content posted on social media for art and culture events.
The corresponding paper has been presented at CD-MAKE 2017 in Reggio Calabria on August 31st, 2017.
Nowadays people share everything on online social networks, from daily life stories to the latest local and global news and events. In our paper, we address the specific problem of user behavioural profiling in the context of cultural and artistic events.
We propose a specific analysis pipeline that aims at examining the profile of online users, based on the textual content they published online. The pipeline covers the following aspects: data extraction and enrichment, topic modeling based on LDA, dimensionality reduction, user clustering, prediction of interest, content analysis including profiling of images and subjects.
We show our approach at work for the monitoring of participation to a large-scale artistic installation that collected more than 1.5 million visitors in just two weeks (namely The Floating Piers, by Christo and Jeanne-Claude). In the paper we report our findings and discuss the pros and cons of the work.
The full paper is published by Springer in the LNCS series in volume 10410, pages 219-236.
The slides used for the presentation are available on SlideShare:
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