Affiliations: [a] School of Computers and Software Engineering, XiHua University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China | [b] School of Computers, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China | [c] Library of XiHua University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Corresponding author: Yajun Du, School of Computers and Software Engineering, XiHua University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610039, China. E-mail: duyajun@mail.xhu.edu.cn.
Abstract: Internet public opinion is closely related to our life in social network. The wanton growth of some negative public opinions has an extremely serious impact on the social stability and national security. After the guidance of government manually, some negative public opinion is well controlled and people’s life gain more positive energy. How to use Internet technology to automatically and promptly guide public opinion events and reduce the harm to society is currently challenging research. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a positive public opinion guidance model based on dual learning for negative Internet public opinion, hereinafter denoted to as the dual-PPOG model. Firstly, we use the Fast Unfolding algorithm to divide social networks into the public opinion guidance communities. In these communities, we detect the positive opinion guider and negative opinion receiver by our defined PageRank (PR) variant. Secondly, inspired by dual learning, we construct the public opinion guidance model and evaluate whether the guidance is successful through the feedback signal. Through the repeated guidance of the positive opinion guider to the negative opinion receiver, the public opinion guidance is successful. This is the main process for the dual positive public opinion mechanism. Finally, we guide the remaining nodes based on the opinion dynamics. The experiment demonstrates beneficial effects of our proposed model of dual-PPOG. Experimental results on three real-world datasets intercepted from Twitter, E-mail and Facebook show that the model of dual-PPOG can capture useful information in the network topology. Compared with the methods of HK, AE, Random and AIA on the three datasets from small to large in scale, the percentage of positive opinion increased by 4%, 6.9%, and 2.7% respectively, which shows our approach achieve significant improvements and effectiveness compared to all baselines.
Keywords: Positive public opinion guidance, dual learning, opinion dynamics
