Conversation retrieval for microblogging sites

Information Retrieval

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 354-372

  Magnani, Matteo ^a   Montesi, Danilo ^b   Rossi, Luca ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conversation retrieval; Monitoring; Social media; Social network analysis metrics; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861454496     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-012-9189-9     Document Type: Article

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