Automated inference of point of view from user interactions in collective intelligence venues

Sanmay Das, Allen Lavoie
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 32(2):82-90, 2014.

Abstract

Empirical evaluation of trust and manipulation in large-scale collective intelligence processes is challenging. The datasets involved are too large for thorough manual study, and current automated options are limited. We introduce a statistical framework which classifies point of view based on user interactions. The framework works on Web-scale datasets and is applicable to a wide variety of collective intelligence processes. It enables principled study of such issues as manipulation, trustworthiness of information, and potential bias. We demonstrate the model’s effectiveness in determining point of view on both synthetic data and a dataset of Wikipedia user interactions. We build a combined model of topics and points-of-view on the entire history of English Wikipedia, and show how it can be used to find potentially biased articles and visualize user interactions at a high level.

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BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v32-das14, title = {Automated inference of point of view from user interactions in collective intelligence venues}, author = {Das, Sanmay and Lavoie, Allen}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning}, pages = {82--90}, year = {2014}, editor = {Xing, Eric P. and Jebara, Tony}, volume = {32}, number = {2}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, address = {Bejing, China}, month = {22--24 Jun}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/das14.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/das14.html}, abstract = {Empirical evaluation of trust and manipulation in large-scale collective intelligence processes is challenging. The datasets involved are too large for thorough manual study, and current automated options are limited. We introduce a statistical framework which classifies point of view based on user interactions. The framework works on Web-scale datasets and is applicable to a wide variety of collective intelligence processes. It enables principled study of such issues as manipulation, trustworthiness of information, and potential bias. We demonstrate the model’s effectiveness in determining point of view on both synthetic data and a dataset of Wikipedia user interactions. We build a combined model of topics and points-of-view on the entire history of English Wikipedia, and show how it can be used to find potentially biased articles and visualize user interactions at a high level.} }
Endnote
%0 Conference Paper %T Automated inference of point of view from user interactions in collective intelligence venues %A Sanmay Das %A Allen Lavoie %B Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 2014 %E Eric P. Xing %E Tony Jebara %F pmlr-v32-das14 %I PMLR %P 82--90 %U https://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/das14.html %V 32 %N 2 %X Empirical evaluation of trust and manipulation in large-scale collective intelligence processes is challenging. The datasets involved are too large for thorough manual study, and current automated options are limited. We introduce a statistical framework which classifies point of view based on user interactions. The framework works on Web-scale datasets and is applicable to a wide variety of collective intelligence processes. It enables principled study of such issues as manipulation, trustworthiness of information, and potential bias. We demonstrate the model’s effectiveness in determining point of view on both synthetic data and a dataset of Wikipedia user interactions. We build a combined model of topics and points-of-view on the entire history of English Wikipedia, and show how it can be used to find potentially biased articles and visualize user interactions at a high level.
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TY - CPAPER TI - Automated inference of point of view from user interactions in collective intelligence venues AU - Sanmay Das AU - Allen Lavoie BT - Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning DA - 2014/06/18 ED - Eric P. Xing ED - Tony Jebara ID - pmlr-v32-das14 PB - PMLR DP - Proceedings of Machine Learning Research VL - 32 IS - 2 SP - 82 EP - 90 L1 - http://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/das14.pdf UR - https://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/das14.html AB - Empirical evaluation of trust and manipulation in large-scale collective intelligence processes is challenging. The datasets involved are too large for thorough manual study, and current automated options are limited. We introduce a statistical framework which classifies point of view based on user interactions. The framework works on Web-scale datasets and is applicable to a wide variety of collective intelligence processes. It enables principled study of such issues as manipulation, trustworthiness of information, and potential bias. We demonstrate the model’s effectiveness in determining point of view on both synthetic data and a dataset of Wikipedia user interactions. We build a combined model of topics and points-of-view on the entire history of English Wikipedia, and show how it can be used to find potentially biased articles and visualize user interactions at a high level. ER -
APA
Das, S. & Lavoie, A.. (2014). Automated inference of point of view from user interactions in collective intelligence venues. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 32(2):82-90 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/das14.html.

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