An Uncertainty-Aware Approach for Exploratory Microblog Retrieval

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 250-259

  Liu, Mengchen ^a   Liu, Shixia ^a   Zhu, Xizhou ^b   Liao, Qinying ^c   Wei, Furu ^c   Pan, Shimei ^d  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data models; Data visualization; Monte Carlo methods; Tagging; Twitter; Uncertainty; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DATA VISUALIZATION; FLOW GRAPHS; GRAPHIC METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VISUALIZATION;

EFFECTIVE MECHANISMS; MUTUAL REINFORCEMENT; PROPAGATION OF UNCERTAINTIES; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; TAGGING; TWITTER; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BLOGGING; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BLOGGING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 84947080779     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467554     Document Type: Article

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