Enquiring minds: Early detection of rumors in social media from enquiry posts

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

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1395-1405

  Zhao, Zhe ^a   Resnick, Paul ^a   Mei, Qiaozhu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WORLD WIDE WEB;

DIFFUSION PROCESS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TRENDING TOPICS; TYPICAL DAY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84963760169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2736277.2741637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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