From popularity prediction to ranking online news

Social Network Analysis and Mining

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Tatar, Alexandru ^a   Antoniadis, Panayotis ^b   Amorim, Marcelo Dias de ^a   Fdida, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Online news; Predictions; Ranking; User comments

Indexed keywords

CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; CONTENT POPULARITIES; ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS; ONLINE NEWS; POPULARITY PREDICTIONS; PREDICTION TASKS; RANKING; USER COMMENTS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84947243286     PISSN: 18695450     EISSN: 18695469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13278-014-0174-8     Document Type: Article

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