A new topical feature extraction method based on similarities of user's topics is proposed to solve the insufficiency of topical feature mining of link predictions in social networks. The topic distributions of social network users are firstly obtained using a topic model and then topic groups of interests for each user are extracted for further similarity-based feature extractions. The proposed topical features exhibit comparable performance of structural features and is efficiently combined with structural features to achieve better results in link predictions. Experimental results based on the dataset collected from Sina Microblog show that independent prediction of topical features is better than that of structural features and the F-measure of structural features is improved by up to 3% with joint predictions.
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