HotComment: A Benchmark for Evaluating Popularity of Online Comments

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Auteurs principaux: Wu, Yafeng, Zhang, Yunyao, Ye, Liliang, Zeng, Guiyi, Yu, Junqing, Xu, Chen, Song, Zikai
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author Wu, Yafeng
Zhang, Yunyao
Ye, Liliang
Zeng, Guiyi
Yu, Junqing
Xu, Chen
Song, Zikai
author_facet Wu, Yafeng
Zhang, Yunyao
Ye, Liliang
Zeng, Guiyi
Yu, Junqing
Xu, Chen
Song, Zikai
contents Online comments play a crucial role in shaping public sentiment and opinion dynamics on social media. However, evaluating their popularity remains challenging, not only because it depends on linguistic quality, originality, and emotional resonance, but also because stylistic preferences vary widely across platforms and user groups, causing the same comment to resonate differently in different communities. In this work, we present HotComment, a multimodal benchmark integrating video and text modalities that comprehensively quantifies popularity from three enhanced aspects: (1) Content Quality, which evaluates semantic similarity with ground-truth human comments and extends quality assessment through four interpretable dimensions; (2) Popularity Prediction, based on trends from models trained on real-world interaction data; and (3) User Behavior Simulation, which models the distribution of platform users and approximates \textbf{engagement scores} through an agent-based framework. Furthermore, we propose StyleCmt, inspired by social ripple effects, where multiple stylistic dimensions align to amplify socially resonant expressions and suppress incongruent ones.
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spellingShingle HotComment: A Benchmark for Evaluating Popularity of Online Comments
Wu, Yafeng
Zhang, Yunyao
Ye, Liliang
Zeng, Guiyi
Yu, Junqing
Xu, Chen
Song, Zikai
Artificial Intelligence
Online comments play a crucial role in shaping public sentiment and opinion dynamics on social media. However, evaluating their popularity remains challenging, not only because it depends on linguistic quality, originality, and emotional resonance, but also because stylistic preferences vary widely across platforms and user groups, causing the same comment to resonate differently in different communities. In this work, we present HotComment, a multimodal benchmark integrating video and text modalities that comprehensively quantifies popularity from three enhanced aspects: (1) Content Quality, which evaluates semantic similarity with ground-truth human comments and extends quality assessment through four interpretable dimensions; (2) Popularity Prediction, based on trends from models trained on real-world interaction data; and (3) User Behavior Simulation, which models the distribution of platform users and approximates \textbf{engagement scores} through an agent-based framework. Furthermore, we propose StyleCmt, inspired by social ripple effects, where multiple stylistic dimensions align to amplify socially resonant expressions and suppress incongruent ones.
title HotComment: A Benchmark for Evaluating Popularity of Online Comments
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25614