Tweetcred: Real-time credibility assessment of content on twitter

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8851, Issue , 2014, Pages 228-243

  Gupta, Aditi ^a   Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam ^a   Castillo, Carlos ^b   Meier, Patrick ^b  

^a INDRAPRASTHA INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SUPERVISED LEARNING;

CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT; CRISIS EVENTS; PLUG-INS; RANKING MODEL; REAL TIME; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; VALUE OF INFORMATION;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 84914166546     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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