How accurately can one's interests be inferred from friends?

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1203-1204

  Wen, Zhen ^a   Lin, Ching Yung ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

accuracy; social networks; user modeling

Indexed keywords

BETWEENNESS CENTRALITY; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; FILE SHARING; IN-DEGREE; NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL BOOKMARKING; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; USER INTEREST MODEL; USER INTERESTS; USER MODELING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77954602483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1772690.1772875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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