Title
Automatic opinion leader recognition in group discussions
Abstract
In this paper, we propose an efficient approach to identify the opinion leader from group discussion. This approach is able to recognize the opinion leader without analyzing semantic and syntactic features, which may cost a lot more computing effort. We firstly propose algorithms to evaluate the degree of participation and the emotion expression from the speaking of each member during group discussion. Moreover, by conducting lab-scale experiment, a well-trained model, which is tested on single dataset as well as on cross dataset, is obtained to recognize the opinion leader. Finally, we conduct a field experiment to evaluate the proposed system in a real world setting. The results show that the accuracy of opinion leader identification could achieve to 94.68% on Berlin dataset, 76% on Youtube data and 73.33% on live group discussion. Thus, with this simple and efficient system, opinion leader can be successfully identified in various conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TAAI.2016.7880177
2016 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Word-of-mouth communication,opinion leader,influence,emotion recognition,group discussion
Group discussion,Computer science,Emotion recognition,Support vector machine,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Opinion leadership,Syntax,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2376-6816
978-1-5090-5733-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu-Chang Ho100.34
Hao-Min Liu200.68
Hui-Hsin Hsu300.34
Chun-Han Lin49610.86
Yao Hua Ho58413.79
Ling-Jyh Chen675978.81