Using stranger as sensors: Temporal and geo-sensitive question answering via social media

WWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 803-813

  Liu, Yefeng ^a   Alexandrova, Todorka ^a   Nakajima, Tatsuo ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crowd sourcing; Human as sensors; Microblogging; Social media; Stranger sourcing; Temporal and geo sensitive question answering

Indexed keywords

CROWD-SOURCING; MICROBLOGGING; QUESTION ANSWERING; SOCIAL MEDIA; STRANGER-SOURCING;

SENSORS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

EID: 84893031690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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