Improving recency ranking using twitter data

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chang, Yi ^a   Dong, Anlei ^a   Kolari, Pranam ^a   Zhang, Ruiqiang ^a   Inagaki, Yoshiyuki ^a   Diaz, Fernanodo ^a   Zha, Hongyuan ^b   Liu, Yan ^c  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Recency ranking; Tweet ranking; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EXPERIMENTS; HIGH QUALITY; RECENCY RANKING; TWEET RANKING; TWITTER; VERTICAL SEARCHES; WEB SEARCH RANKINGS; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84873618242     PISSN: 21576904     EISSN: 21576912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2414425.2414429     Document Type: Article

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