Democrats, republicans and starbucks afficionados: User classification in twitter

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 430-438

  Pennacchiotti, Marco ^a   Popescu, Ana Maria ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Microblogging; Social media; User profiling

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AD TARGETING; CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS; MACHINE-LEARNING; MICROBLOGGING; SERVICE MARKETING; SOCIAL MEDIA; STARBUCKS; USER CLASSIFICATION; USER'S PROFILING; WEB SEARCHES;

USER PROFILE;

EID: 80052652741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2020408.2020477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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