ECANP: A Topic Influence Evaluation Model for Hot Topics

Table 1

Symbols and description used in this paper.

Symbols	Description
	Weight of likes to user engagement
	Weight of forwarding number to user engagement
	Weight of comment numbers to user engagement
	Total likes of topic
	Total forwards number of topic
	Total comment number of topic
	The number of articles related to topic
	Total number of articles on all topics
	Duration, that is, the time from the appearance to the end of the topic
	The number of time units in which the topic was reported like day or month
	The number of time units segmented from the earliest release time of all topics to the acquisition time
	The number of time units between the current influence evaluation time and the topic release time