Evaluating the importance of different communication types in romantic tie prediction on social media

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate which communication types on social media are most indicative for romantic tie prediction. In contrast to analyzing communication as a composite measure, we take a disaggregated approach by modeling separate measures for commenting, liking and tagging focused on an alter’s status updates, photos, videos, check-ins, locations and links. To ensure that we have the best possible model we benchmark 8...