Detecting deception in Online Social Networks

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 383-390

  Alowibdi, Jalal S ^a,b   Buy, Ugo A ^a   Yu, Philip S ^a   Stenneth, Leon ^c  

^a University of Illinois   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Nokia Connected Driving   (United States)

Author keywords

Deception detection; gender classification; profile characteristics; Twitter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION MEDIUM; DECEPTION DETECTION; DECEPTIVE INFORMATION; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS (OSNS); PROFILE CHARACTERISTICS; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84911166843     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASONAM.2014.6921614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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