Using sentiment to detect bots on Twitter: Are humans more opinionated than bots?

ASONAM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 620-627

  Dickerson, John P ^a,b   Kagan, Vadim ^b   Subrahmanian, V S ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sentimetrix Inc ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE DATASET; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

APPLICATION-ORIENTED; AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; INDIAN ELECTIONS; LIMITED DATA;

BOTNET;

EID: 84911092163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASONAM.2014.6921650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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