An interactive method for inferring demographic attributes in Twitter

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

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 113-122

  Beretta, Valentina ^a   Maccagnola, Daniele ^a   Cribbin, Timothy ^b   Messina, Enza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOFTWARE DESIGN; USER INTERFACES;

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; INTERACTIVE METHODS; INTERACTIVE PROCESS; PUBLIC OPINIONS; RAPID RESOLUTION; USER-CENTERED DESIGN APPROACHES;

USER CENTERED DESIGN;

EID: 84956973477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2700171.2791031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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