Automatic moderation of online discussion sites

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 9-30

  Delort, Jean Yves ^a   Arunasalam, Bavani ^b   Paris, Cecile ^c  

^a Google Inc   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

automatic classifiers; automatic moderation; content filtering; online discussion sites; partially labeled corpora

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955641204     PISSN: 10864415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/JEC1086-4415150302     Document Type: Article

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