Searching microblogs: Coping with sparsity and document quality

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 183-188

  Naveed, Nasir ^a   Gottron, Thomas ^a   Kunegis, Jérôme ^a   Alhadi, Arifah Che ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

interestingness; microblog; retweet; twitter

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT LENGTH NORMALIZATION; DOCUMENT QUALITY; INTERESTINGNESS; LENGTH NORMALIZATION; MICRO-BLOG; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY MEASURES; RETRIEVAL MODELS; RETWEET; TWITTER;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 83055192007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2063576.2063607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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