Gender, writing and ranking in review forums: A case study of the IMDb

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 645-664

  Otterbacher, Jahna ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Information filtering; Social voting; Text classification

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; INFORMATION FILTERING; TEXT PROCESSING;

DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; GENDER; INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE; ONLINE REVIEWS; PERCEIVED UTILITY; SOCIAL VOTING; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; WORD-OF-MOUTH COMMUNICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84877107057     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-012-0548-z     Document Type: Review

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