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Finding Influential Users in the SNS Using Interaction Concept : Focusing on the Blogosphere with Continuous Referencing Relationships

상호작용성에 의한 SNS 영향유저 선정에 관한 연구 : 연속적인 참조관계가 있는 블로고스피어를 중심으로

  • Park, Hyunjung (Business Research Center, Seoul National University) ;
  • Rho, Sangkyu (Graduate School of Business, Seoul National University)
  • 박현정 (서울대학교 경영연구소) ;
  • 노상규 (서울대학교 경영대학/경영대학원)
  • Received : 2012.08.31
  • Accepted : 2012.10.16
  • Published : 2012.11.30

Abstract

Various influence-related relationships in Social Network Services (SNS) among users, posts, and user-and-post, can be expressed using links. The current research evaluates the influence of specific users or posts by analyzing the link structure of relevant social network graphs to identify influential users. We applied the concept of mutual interactions proposed for ranking semantic web resources, rather than the voting notion of Page Rank or HITS, to blogosphere, one of the early SNS. Through many experiments with network models, where the performance and validity of each alternative approach can be analyzed, we showed the applicability and strengths of our approach. The weight tuning processes for the links of these network models enabled us to control the experiment errors form the link weight differences and compare the implementation easiness of alternatives. An additional example of how to enter the content scores of commercial or spam posts into the graph-based method is suggested on a small network model as well. This research, as a starting point of the study on identifying influential users in SNS, is distinctive from the previous researches in the following points. First, various influence-related properties that are deemed important but are disregarded, such as scraping, commenting, subscribing to RSS feeds, and trusting friends, can be considered simultaneously. Second, the framework reflects the general phenomenon where objects interacting with more influential objects increase their influence. Third, regarding the extent to which a bloggers causes other bloggers to act after him or her as the most important factor of influence, we treated sequential referencing relationships with a viewpoint from that of PageRank or HITS (Hypertext Induced Topic Selection).

블로그, 페이스북, 트위터와 같은 SNS(Social Network Service)는 유저와 포스트를 노드로, 유저와 포스트, 포스트와 포스트, 또는 유저와 유저 사이에 형성되는 다양한 관계를 링크로 하는 그래프로 표현될 수 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 그래프 구조를 분석하여 다른 유저들의 생각과 행동에 영향을 미치는 영향 유저를 선별하는 방법에 대해 논한다. 기본적인 패러다임으로 기존의 투표성 개념이 아닌, 다양한 시맨틱 웹 자원의 중요도를 평가하기 위해 제안된 상호작용성 개념을 초기 SNS의 하나인 블로고스피어의 영향력 평가에 적용함으로써, 여러 모의 실험을 통해 그 타당성과 적용 가능성을 입증하였다. 모의 실험은 각 대안이 제공하는 결과의 타당성 정도에 따라 성능을 비교 분석할 수 있는 네트워크 모형을 디자인하여 사용하였다. 또, 이러한 네트워크 모형에 대한 링크 가중치 튜닝의 결과 변화를 살펴봄으로써, 가중치 조합의 차이에서 발생하는 실험 오차를 줄이고, 실제 적용의 용이함을 비교 분석하였다. 부가적으로, 스팸 필터링 목적에서 포스트 컨텐츠 점수를 링크 구조 기반 방법 안에 포함시킬 수 있는 방법도 제안하였다. 본 연구는 SNS 영향유저 선별에 대한 연구의 출발점으로서, 다음과 같은 점에서 기존 연구와 구별된다. 첫째, 스크랩, 댓글, RSS, 친구 등 기존 연구에서 유의미한 속성으로 간주했지만, 그래프 기반 방법으로 함께 고려할 수 없었던 다양한 영향력 속성들을 종합적으로 반영할 수 있는 그래프 기반 영향력 평가 프레임웍을 제시한다. 둘째, 이 프레임웍은 영향력이 높은 개체들과 상호작용하는 개체가 영향력이 낮은 개체들과 상호작용하는 개체보다 높은 영향력을 갖게 되는 일반적인 현상을 구현할 수 있는 양방향성을 반영한다. 셋째, 영향력 평가 면에서 다른 사람들의 추종액션을 유발한 정도를 가장 중요한 요인으로 고려하여, 일련의 참조관계에 대해 기존의 페이지랭크나 HITS(Hypertext Induced Topic Selection)와는 다른 관점에서 접근하였다.

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