"i loan because.": Understanding motivations for pro-social lending

WSDM 2012 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 503-512

  Liu, Yang ^a   Chen, Roy ^a   Chen, Yan ^a   Mei, Qiaozhu ^a   Salib, Suzy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Kiva; Lending motivation; Microfinance; Pro social lending; Text classification

Indexed keywords

DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS; HIGH PRECISION; KIVA; LEXICAL FEATURES; MICROFINANCE; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PRO-SOCIAL LENDING; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; TEXT CLASSIFIERS;

CLASSIFIERS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MOTIVATION; WEBSITES;

FINANCE;

EID: 84863275820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2124295.2124356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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