What does everybody know? Identifying event-specific sources from social media

Proceedings of the 2012 4th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks, CASoN 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 63-68

  Mahata, Debanjan ^a   Agarwal, Nitin ^a  

^a University of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

closeness; event analysis; information gain; long tail; social media; specificity

Indexed keywords

CLOSENESS; EVENT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION GAIN; LONG TAIL; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPECIFICITY;

INFORMATION THEORY; INTERNET;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874074707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CASoN.2012.6412379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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