Inferring user social class in online social networks

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis, SNAKDD 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Filho, Renato Miranda ^a,b   Borges, Guilherme R ^a   Almeida, Jussara M ^a   Pappa, Gisele L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MACHINE LEARNING;

CLASS DIVISIONS; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; OBJECTIVE DEFINITION; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; PUBLIC DATA; USER INTERACTION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84921814900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2659480.2659502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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