You are who you talk to: Detecting Roles in usenet newsgroups

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fisher, Danyel ^a   Smith, Marc ^a   Welser, Howard T ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHORS; CONVERSATIONAL NEWSGROUPS; NEWSGROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT NEWSGROUPS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749613819     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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