Rumor has it: Identifying misinformation in microblogs

EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1589-1599

  Qazvinian, Vahed ^a   Rosengren, Emily ^a   Radev, Dragomir R ^a   Mei, Qiaozhu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT-BASED; DATA SETS; LARGE NETWORKS; MICRO-BLOG; NETWORK-BASED; NEW DIMENSIONS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053291127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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