Next cashtag prediction on social trading platforms with auxiliary tasks

Chung-Chi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Abstract: Social trading platforms provide a forum for investors to share their analysis and opinions. Posts on these platforms are characterized by narrative styles which are much different from posts on general social platforms, for instance tweets. As a result, recommendation systems for social trading platforms should leverage tailor-made latent features. This paper presents a representation for these latent features in both textual data and market information. A real-world dataset is adopted to conduct experiments involving a novel task called next cashtag prediction. We propose a joint learning model with an attentive capsule network. Experimental results show positive results with the proposed methods and the corresponding auxiliary tasks.