Towards Boosting Video Popularity via Tag Selection Elizeu Santos-Neto, Tatiana Pontes, Jussara Almeida, Matei Ripeanu University of British Columbia - Vancouver, Canada Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte, Brazil Glasgow, Scotland - April 1st, 2014 SoMuS Workshop

Introduction 100 hours of video per minute specialized content management companies are responsible to: publish monitor promote the owner's content ads revenues shared between the manager and the video's owner As revenue is directly related to the number of ad prints, this motivates managers to boost content popularity. 1

keyword/tag-based search website video repository Introduction Title Description Tag Tag comment promotion campaign URL Viewers reach a content item via different leads: 2

Introduction Textual features have a major impact on how users find a video, and consequently on the advertisement-generated revenues. Title Description Tag comment Focus on automated tag selection to boost video popularity. Q1. What are the challenges in building a ground truth? Q2. Can the textual features of existing videos be further optimized to attract traffic? 3

Context Assumption: annotating a video with the terms users would use to search for it increases the chance that users view the video. - Recommendation Pipeline - 4

Data Sources Experts Peers 5

Recommenders ●Frequency & Random Walk ●Goal is not to design a novel and more efficient tag recommendation algorithm. ●Goal is to understand whether videos currently published on YouTube have their tags optimized to attract search traffic.

Optimization maximiz e subject to Let v be a video and C =, i = 1, …, n, be a list of candidate keywords: length of k i in bytes budget x i ∈ {0,1} is an indicator variable ∈ scoring function provided by the recommender for k i with respect to v

Ground Truth Q1. What are the challenges in building a ground truth? The ideal ground truth would be constructed through the creation of an experiment that vary the video tagset and capture their impact on the number of views attracted. Challenges of this approach: ➔ collecting this requires the publishing rights for the videos; ➔ it is a time consuming experiment; ➔ unpopular videos (even with an optimized tagset) may bias the results.

Building the Ground Truth Our task - Watch a movie trailer video and answer the following question: What query terms would you use to search for this video ? For each video, associate a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 10 keywords. Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT)

AMT Task Properties PropertyValue # Videos382 # Turkers33 # Evaluations1,146 $ / Task$0.30 $ / Hour$3.00 Total Cost$ Quality Control - each evaluation was inspected before approval.

Ground Truth Characterization 58% of turkers evaluated more than 5 videos. Observation: one turker evaluated 333 videos.

Ground Truth Characterization 96% of the videos have 10 or more different keywords associated. Observation: 82% of the evaluations provided more than the minimum required of 3 keywords.

Ground Truth Characterization 32% of videos have keywords summing up to 100 characters. Observation: These values guided the budget parameter in our experiments.

Experimental Evaluation Q2. Can the current YouTube video tags be improved? By improvement we mean recommending tags that better matches the ground truth. Recommender algorithms: Frequency and Random Walk. Success Metric: F3-measure. Performance of the original YouTube tagset Performance of the recommended tagset produced by all data sources combined X

Experimental Results Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of significance: Frequency: D - = 0.44 p-value = 3.9 x Random Walk: D - = 0.43 p-value = 5.5 x The performance of All data sources is higher than the achieved by YouTube tags.

Conclusions ➔ Tags currently assigned to YouTube videos can be improved by automated methods to attract more search traffic; ➔ The results show that even simple recommenders with a combination of data sources can improve tags.

Future Work ➔ Compare the performance of data sources individually and grouped by type (peer vs. expert, structured vs. unstructured); ➔ Investigate if the number of contributors in a peer-produced data source affects the value of tags; ➔ Explore other classes of videos.

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