The social world of content abusers in community question answering

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

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 570-580

  Kayes, Imrul ^a   Kourtellis, Nicolas ^b   Quercia, Daniele ^b   Iamnitchi, Adriana ^a   Bonchi, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Community question answering; Content abusers; Crowdsourc ing

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE;

COMMUNITY QUESTION ANSWERING; COMMUNITY-BASED QUESTION ANSWERING; CONTENT ABUSERS; NETWORK PROPERTIES; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84957023883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2736277.2741674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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