@inproceedings{xing-paul-2017-incorporating,
    title = "Incorporating Metadata into Content-Based User Embeddings",
    author = "Xing, Linzi  and
      Paul, Michael J.",
    editor = "Derczynski, Leon  and
      Xu, Wei  and
      Ritter, Alan  and
      Baldwin, Tim",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text",
    month = sep,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W17-4406/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-4406",
    pages = "45--49",
    abstract = "Low-dimensional vector representations of social media users can benefit applications like recommendation systems and user attribute inference. Recent work has shown that user embeddings can be improved by combining different types of information, such as text and network data. We propose a data augmentation method that allows novel feature types to be used within off-the-shelf embedding models. Experimenting with the task of friend recommendation on a dataset of 5,019 Twitter users, we show that our approach can lead to substantial performance gains with the simple addition of network and geographic features."
}