Homophily and latent attribute inference: Inferring latent attributes of Twitter users from neighbors

ICWSM 2012 - Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 387-390

  Al Zamal, Faiyaz ^a   Liu, Wendy ^a   Ruths, Derek ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOPHILY; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; SUB-SAMPLES; USER FEATURE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84890629874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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