Deriving semantic relationships based on empirical organization of content by users

AJ Cohen, MA Cohen, R McKeown, S Znam… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
A computer-implemented content suggestion engine provides content suggestions to a
requesting user based on information about content items that other users may have …

Why do we pin? New gratifications explain unique activities in Pinterest

R Wang, F Yang, S Zheng… - Social Media+ …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Pinterest is now the fourth most popular social network site after Facebook, Twitter, and
LinkedIn in the United States, offering its own suite of functions. This study investigated why …

Collecting, organizing, and sharing pins in pinterest: interest-driven or social-driven?

J Han, D Choi, BG Chun, T Kwon, H Kim… - ACM SIGMETRICS …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Pinterest, a popular social curating service where people collect, organize, and share
content (pins in Pinterest), has gained great attention in recent years. Despite the increasing …

Latent Dirichlet allocation for linking user-generated content and e-commerce data

S Zoghbi, I Vulić, MF Moens - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Automatic linking of online content improves navigation possibilities for end users. We focus
on linking content generated by users to other relevant sites. In particular, we study the …

Finding a needle in the haystack-recommending online communities on social media platforms using network and design science

S Velichety, S Ram - … Journal of Association for Information Systems, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
We address the problem of recommending online communities on social media platforms
using design science. Our method is grounded in network science and leverages the …

The pin-bang theory: Discovering the Pinterest world

S Mittal, N Gupta, P Dewan, P Kumaraguru - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2013 - arxiv.org
Pinterest is an image-based online social network, which was launched in the year 2010
and has gained a lot of traction, ever since. Within 3 years, Pinterest has attained 48.7 …

Predicting pinterest: Automating a distributed human computation

C Zhong, D Karamshuk, N Sastry - Proceedings of the 24th international …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Everyday, millions of users save content items for future use on sites like Pinterest,
by''pinning''them onto carefully categorised personal pinboards, thereby creating personal …

Sharing topics in pinterest: understanding content creation and diffusion behaviors

J Han, D Choi, AY Choi, J Choi, T Chung… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Pinterest provides a social curation service where people can collect, organize, and share
content (pins in Pinterest) that reflect their interests. This paper investigates (1) the …

Do I need to follow you? Examining the utility of the Pinterest follow mechanism

B Gelley, A John - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Pinterest is a Social Network Site (SNS) centered around the curation and sharing of visual
content. The site encourages users to form ties with (follow) other users based on mutual …

User recommendation in content curation platforms

J Wang, Z Zhu, J Caverlee - … of the 13th International Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We propose a personalized user recommendation framework for content curation platforms
that models preferences for both users and the items they engage with simultaneously. In …