Sidelines: An Algorithm for Increasing Diversity in News and Opinion Aggregators

Proceedings of the 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 130-137

  Munson, Sean A ^a   Zhou, Daniel Xiaodan ^a   Resnick, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

DIVERSITY METRICS; ON-LINE EXPERIMENTS; POLITICAL BLOGS; SOCIETAL BENEFITS; TOPIC DIVERSITY;

BLOGS;

EID: 84890594111     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v3i1.13950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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