Predicting self-monitoring skills using textual posts on Facebook

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-78

  He, Qiwei ^a   Glas, Cees A W ^a   Kosinski, Michal ^b   Stillwell, David J ^b   Veldkamp, Bernard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data validation; Facebook; Item response theory; Natural language processing; Self monitoring; Text mining

Indexed keywords

DATA VALIDATION; FACEBOOK; ITEM RESPONSE THEORY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SELF-MONITORING; TEXT MINING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; FORECASTING; INTERNET; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84893147584     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2013.12.026     Document Type: Article

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