Network quantification despite biased labels

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, MLG'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 147-154

  Tang, Lei ^a   Gao, Huiji ^a   Liu, Huan ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification based quantification; Link based quantification; Network quantification; Prevalence estimation

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION-BASED QUANTIFICATION; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; EBB-AND-FLOW; HUMAN RELATIONS; LINK ANALYSIS; LINK-BASED QUANTIFICATION; MACHINE-LEARNING; NETWORK DATA; NETWORK QUANTIFICATION; PREVALENCE ESTIMATION; QUANTIFICATION METHODS; RELATIONAL LEARNING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77956256748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1830252.1830271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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