Crowdsourcing quality control of online information: A quality-based cascade model

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6589 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 147-154

  Fu, Wai Tat ^a   Liao, Vera ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

information cascades; social dynamics; user reviews; Web quality

Indexed keywords

CASCADE MODEL; CROWDSOURCING; INFORMATION CASCADES; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INFORMATION FLOWS; ON-LINE INFORMATION; ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION; OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS; PRIMARY SOURCES; PRODUCT REVIEWS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY INFORMATION; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; USER REVIEWS; WEB QUALITY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79952406502     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19656-0_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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