Surpassing the limit: Keyword clustering to improve Twitter sample coverage

HT 2015 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 237-245

  Sampson, Justin ^a   Morstatter, Fred ^a   Maciejewski, Ross ^a   Liu, Huan ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Social media; Text processing

Indexed keywords

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; KEYWORD-CLUSTERING; LEARNING MODELS; SAMPLE POPULATION; SAMPLING PROCESS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84951875749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2700171.2791030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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