Quantifying controversy in social media

WSDM 2016 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 33-42

  Garimella, Kiran ^a   De Francisci Morales, Gianmarco ^a   Gionis, Aristides ^a   Mathioudakis, Michael ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS; DATA-SOURCES; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; GRAPH-BASED; METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES; RANDOM WALK; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84964344825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2835776.2835792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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