Who is the barbecue king of Texas?: A geo-spatial approach to finding local experts on Twitter

SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 335-344

  Cheng, Zhiyuan ^a   Caverlee, James ^a   Barthwal, Himanshu ^a   Bachani, Vandana ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Expert finding; Local expert; Social tagging; Twitter

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

CROWDSOURCING; EXPERT FINDING; LOCAL EXPERTS; SOCIAL TAGGING; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84904579490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2600428.2609580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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