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Identifying Emergent Thought Leaders

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Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction (SBP 2014)

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Abstract

Determining the emergent thought leader of an ad hoc organization would have enormous benefit in a variety of domains including emergency response. To determine if such leaders could be identified automatically, we compared an observer-based assessment to an automated approach for detecting leaders of 3-person ad hoc teams performing a logistics planning task. The automated coding used a combination of indicator phrases indicative of reasoning and uncertainty. The member of the team with the most reasoning and least uncertainty matched the observer-based leader in two thirds of the teams. This determination could be combined with other analyses of the topics of discussion to determine emergent thought leaders in different domains. As an example, a real-time user interface providing this information is shown which highlights communications by others that are relevant to the automatically detected, topic-specific, emergent thought leader.

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  1. Aptima, Inc., Woburn, MA, USA

    Andrew Duchon

  2. School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Emily S. Patterson

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  1. Center for Social Complexity and Department of Computational Social Science, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MS 6B2, 22030-4400, Fairfax, VA, USA

    William G. Kennedy

  2. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 South University Avenue, EIT Building, Room 553, 72204, Little Rock, AR, USA

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  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, 83 Lomb Memorial Drive, Bldg 09, 14623-5603, Rochester, NY, USA

    Shanchieh Jay Yang

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Duchon, A., Patterson, E.S. (2014). Identifying Emergent Thought Leaders. In: Kennedy, W.G., Agarwal, N., Yang, S.J. (eds) Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction. SBP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8393. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05579-4_7

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