Predicting and characterising user impact on Twitter

14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2014, EACL 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 405-413

  Lampos, Vasileios ^a   Aletras, Nikolaos ^b   Preoţiuc Pietro, Daniel ^b   Cohn, Trevor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORECASTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DIRECT CONTROL; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; NONLINEAR LEARNING; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; OPEN STRUCTURE; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; USAGE STATISTICS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905674831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/e14-1043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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