Aragón P, Gómez V, García D, Kaltenbrunner A. Generative models of online discussion threads: state of the art and research challenges. Journal of Internet Services and Applications
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Aragón P, Gómez V, García D, Kaltenbrunner A. Generative models of online discussion threads: state of the art and research challenges. Journal of Internet Services and Applications
Aragón P, Gómez V, García D, Kaltenbrunner A. Generative models of online discussion threads: state of the art and research challenges. Journal of Internet Services and Applications
Online discussion in form of written comments is a core component of many social media platforms. It has attracted increasing attention from academia, mainly because theories from social sciences can be explored at an unprecedented scale. This interest has led to the development of statistical models which are able to characterize the dynamics of threaded online conversations.
In this paper, we review research on statistical modeling of online discussions, in particular, we describe current generative models of the structure and growth of discussion threads. These are parametrized network formation models that are able to generate synthetic discussion threads that reproduce certain features of the real discussions present in different online platforms. We aim to provide a clear overview of the state of the art and to motivate future work in this relevant research field.