Predicting online extremism, content adopters, and interaction reciprocity

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 10047 LNCS, Issue , 2016, Pages 22-39

  Ferrara, Emilio ^a   Wang, Wen Qiang ^a   Varol, Onur ^b   Flammini, Alessandro ^b   Galstyan, Aram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Online extremism; Radicalization prediction; Social media

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EXPOSED TO; LEARNING FRAMEWORKS; MACHINE-LEARNING; NETWORK FEATURES; ONLINE EXTREMISM; PREDICTION TASKS; RADICALIZATION PREDICTION; RANDOM SAMPLE; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEMPORAL FEATURES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84995478976     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47874-6_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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