Mining opinion leaders is of great significance to the dissemination of information in social network. This paper put forward a mining algorithm of opinion leaders in social network. First, the algorithm defined the concept of attention degree based on the analysis of user attention behaviors including forward, comment, point praise and other concerns. Then it adopted the ideas of voting in the...

The paper addresses a method for spreading messages in social networks through an initial acceleration by “spreading groups”. These groups start the spread which eventually reaches a larger portion of the network. The use of spreading groups creates a final flow which resembles the spread through the nodes with the highest level of influence (opinion leaders). While harnessing opinion leaders t...

A major gap exists between fusion oriented surgeons and Pain Management leaders, bridged by transforaminal endoscopic surgeons represented by the International Intradiscal and Transforaminal Therapy Society (formerly IITS). Current surgical philosophy by key opinion leaders (KOL’s) focus on attaining fusion of the painful spinal segment by emphasizing femoral-pelvic and overall spine sagittal a...

Most previous works on opinion summarization focus on summarizing sentiment polarity distribution towards different aspects of an entity (e.g., battery life and screen of a mobile phone). However, users’ demand may be more beyond this kind of opinion summarization. Besides such coarse-grained summarization on aspects, one may prefer to read detailed but concise text of the opinion data for more...