International Business Machines Corporation
Automatic generation of training sets using subject matter experts on social media

Abstract:

A method, apparatus and computer program product for automatically generating training sets for machine learning. A set of topics to train a machine learning system is provided. A set of subject matter expert follower sites is identified. Each of the subject matter expert follower sites is about a respective topic of the set of topics and allows followers to post content. The content posted by followers of a respective subject matter expert follower site on the internet is retrieved. The retrieved follower posted content is used to train the machine learning to recognize common features of the retrieved follower posted content of followers having an interest in a respective topic of the set of topics.