Ranking news feed updates on social media: A comparative study of supervised models
Abstract
Social media users are overwhelmed by a large number of updates
displayed chronologically in their news feed. Moreover, most updates are irrelevant. Ranking news feed updates by relevance has been proposed to help
users catch up with the content they may find interesting. For this matter, supervised learning models have been commonly used to predict relevance. However,
no comparative study was made to determine the most suitable models. In this
work, we select, analyze, and compare six supervised learning algorithms applied to this case study. Experimental results on Twitter highlight that ensemble
learning models are the most appropriate to predict the relevance of updates.