BiasWatch: A lightweight system for discovering and tracking topic-sensitive opinion bias in social media

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn 19-23-Oct-2015, Issue , 2015, Pages 213-222

  Lu, Haokai ^a   Caverlee, James ^a   Niu, Wei ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Opinion analysis; Social media

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT; BIAS; LIGHTWEIGHT SYSTEMS; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; OPINION ANALYSIS; PROPAGATION METHOD; SOCIAL MEDIA; USER RECOMMENDATIONS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84958239661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2806416.2806573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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