Classifying latent user attributes in Twitter

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 37-44

  Rao, Delip ^a   Yarowsky, David ^a   Shreevats, Abhishek ^a   Gupta, Manaswi ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribute classification; Latent attribute; Sociolinguistics; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE CLASSIFICATION; BASELINE MODELS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; INFORMAL COMMUNICATION; LATENT ATTRIBUTE; MODEL COMPONENTS; PEER INTERACTIONS; PERSONALIZATIONS; POLITICAL ORIENTATION; PROPERTY CLASSIFICATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; TWITTER;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DATA MINING;

EID: 78651284817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871985.1871993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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