Cognos: Crowdsourcing search for topic experts in microblogs

SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 575-584

  Ghosh, Saptarshi ^a,b   Sharma, Naveen ^a,b   Benevenuto, Fabricio ^c   Ganguly, Niloy ^a   Gummadi, Krishna ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

authorities; crowdsourcing; hubs; lists; topic experts; twitter

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITIES; CROWDSOURCING; HUBS; LISTS; TOPIC EXPERTS; TWITTER;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84866605732     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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