Characterizing and curating conversation threads: Expansion, focus, volume, re-entry

WSDM 2013 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 13-22

  Backstrom, Lars ^a   Kleinberg, Jon ^b   Lee, Lillian ^b   Danescu Niculescu Mizil, Cristian ^c  

^a FACEBOOK   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

comment threads; conversations; facebook; feed ranking; likes; on line communities; recommendation; social networks; user generated content; wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COMMENT THREADS; CONVERSATIONS; FACEBOOK; FEED RANKING; LIKES; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; RECOMMENDATION; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; WIKIPEDIA;

DATA MINING; FORECASTING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874239452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2433396.2433401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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