Title
Hydra: Funding State Prediction for Kickstarter Technology Projects Using a Multimodal Deep Learning
Date Issued
25 May 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Alonso Puente
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
Since crowdfunding started, thousands of entrepreneurs have presented their projects to the public to fund them. During the 2009–2019 period, 37% of all Kickstarter projects, one of the most popular crowdfunding platforms, were successfully funded. Different Machine Learning algorithms have been used, considering all the categories in this platform to develop predictive models. However, their research works only reached 20% for the Technology category. The main aim of this study is to develop a Multimodal Deep Learning model with three layers: a Multilayer Perceptron for metadata, a Convolutional Neural Network for project descriptions, and a Bidirectional LSTM model for backers comments. This proposal can predict funding state of Technology projects on Kickstarter. In order to train the model, we created a dataset with 27K Technology projects on Kickstarter between 2009 and 2019. The performance of this proposal reached an AUC value of 93%. Thus, the problem was solved with a different approach that combinates different types of networks to improve results.
Start page
92
End page
107
Volume
1577 CCIS
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la información
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85128936238
Source
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Resource of which it is part
Communications in Computer and Information Science
ISSN of the container
1865-0929
ISBN of the container
978-303104446-5, 9783031044472
Conference
8th Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2021 Virtual, Online 1 December 2021 through 3 December 2021
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Universidad ESAN