Information retrieval on the blogosphere

Foundations and Trends in Finance

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-125

  Santos, Rodrygo L T ^a   MacDonald, Craig ^a   McCreadie, Richard ^a   Ounis, Iadh ^a   Soboroff, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOG SEARCH; BLOGGERS; BLOGGING; BLOGOSPHERES; CENTRAL-ENTITY; GROWING MASS; INFORMATION NEED; MARKET ANALYSIS; SEARCH TASKS; SEARCHING FOR INFORMATIONS; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

BLOGS;

EID: 84865230267     PISSN: 15672395     EISSN: 15672409     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1561/1500000026     Document Type: Review

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