Predicting the volume of comments on online news stories

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1765-1768

  Tsagkias, Manos ^a   Weerkamp, Wouter ^a   De Rijke, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comment volume; Feature engineering; Prediction

Indexed keywords

BINARY CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; ENGINEERING PREDICTION; FEATURE SETS; NEWS ARTICLES; NEWSAGENTS; ONLINE NEWS; PREDICTION TASKS; TWO STAGE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 74549158300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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