On predicting the popularity of newly emerging hashtags in Twitter

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1399-1410

  Ma, Zongyang ^a   Sun, Aixin ^a   Cong, Gao ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

automatic classification; content filtering; text mining

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; CONTENT FILTERING; ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; STANDARD CLASSIFICATION MODELS; TEXT MINING;

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TEXT PROCESSING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84878592161     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22844     Document Type: Article

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