Crowdsourcing the annotation of rumourous conversations in social media

WWW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 347-353

  Zubiaga, Arkaitz ^a   Liakata, Maria ^a   Procter, Rob ^a   Bontcheva, Kalina ^b   Tolmie, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANNOTATED DATASETS; ANNOTATION SCHEME; HIGH QUALITY; SOCIAL MEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84955474419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2740908.2743052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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