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Learning Inclination to Empathy from Social Media Footprints

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UMAP '17: Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079639

Published: 09 July 2017 Publication History

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In recent years we are witnessing a growing spread of social media footprints, as the consequence of the wide use of applications such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, which allow people to share content that might provide information about personal preferences and aptitudes. Among the traits that can be inferred, empathy is the ability to feel and share another person's emotions and we consider it as a relevant aspect for the profiling and recommendation tasks. We propose a method that predicts its level for the user by exploiting her social media data and using linear regression algorithms. The results show which are the most relevant correlations among the different groups of user's features and the empathy level predicted.

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Learning Inclination to Empathy from Social Media Footprints
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Natural language processing
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Users and interactive retrieval
      1. Personalization
  2. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Social networks

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UMAP '17: Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

July 2017

420 pages

ISBN:9781450346351

DOI:10.1145/3079628

General Chairs:
Maria Bielikova
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
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Eelco Herder
L3S Research Center, Germany and Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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University of Torino, Italy
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Michel Desmarais
Polytechnique University, Montreal, Canada

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