Crowdsourced rumour identification during emergencies

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

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 965-970

  McCreadie, Richard ^a   Macdonald, Craig ^a   Ounis, Iadh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EMERGENCY EVENTS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; PUBLIC OPINIONS; REAL-TIME INFORMATION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84968562148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2740908.2742573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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