Predicting IMDB Movie Ratings Using Social Media

Publication Type  Conference Paper
Author  Oghina A., Breuss M., Tsagkias E., de Rijke M.
Year of Publication  2012
Conference Name  ECIR 2012: 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval
Month Published  April
Publisher  Springer
Conference Location  Barcelona
Abstract  

We predict IMDb movie ratings and consider two sets of features: surface and textual features. For the latter, we assume that no social media signal is isolated and use data from multiple channels that are linked to a particular movie, such as tweets from Twitter and comments from YouTube. We extract textual features from each channel to use in our prediction model and we explore whether data from either of these channels can help to extract a better set of textual feature for prediction. Our best performing model is able to rate movies very close to the observed values.

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