Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
5-2018
Abstract
In this paper, we proposed a novel framework which uses user interests inferred from activities (a.k.a., activity interests) in multiple social collaborative platforms to predict users’ platform activities. Included in the framework are two prediction approaches: (i) direct platform activity prediction, which predicts a user’s activities in a platform using his or her activity interests from the same platform (e.g., predict if a user answers a given Stack Overflow question using the user’s interests inferred from his or her prior answer and favorite activities in Stack Overflow), and (ii) cross-platform activity prediction, which predicts a user’s activities in a platform using his or her activity interests from another platform (e.g., predict if a user answers a given Stack Overflow question using the user’s interests inferred from his or her fork and watch activities in GitHub). To evaluate our proposed method, we conduct prediction experiments on two widely used social collaborative platforms in the software development community: GitHub and Stack Overflow. Our experiments show that combining both direct and cross platform activity prediction approaches yield the best accuracies for predicting user activities in GitHub (AUC=0.75) and Stack Overflow (AUC=0.89).
Keywords
GitHub; Social collaborative platforms, Prediction, Stack overflow
Discipline
Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
WebSci' 18: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 27-30
First Page
77
Last Page
86
ISBN
9781450355636
Identifier
10.1145/3201064.3201067
Publisher
ACM
City or Country
New York
Citation
LEE, Roy Ka-Wei and LO, David.
Wisdom in sum of parts: Multi-platform activity prediction in social collaborative sites. (2018). WebSci' 18: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 27-30. 77-86.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4125
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/3201064.3201067