Inferring the demographics of search users: Social data meets search queries

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 131-140

  Bi, Bin ^a   Shokouhi, Milad ^b   Kosinski, Michal ^c   Graepel, Thore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Personalized search; Social networks; User demographics

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECTS; PEARSON CORRELATION; PERSONALIZED SEARCH; PREDICTIVE MODELS; USER DEMOGRAPHICS; WEB SEARCH RESULTS;

CORRELATION METHODS; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84893122023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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