Distilling the outcomes of personal experiences: A propensity-scored analysis of social media

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 370-386

  Olteanu, Alexandra ^c   Varol, Onur ^a   Kiciman, Emre ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Experience outcomes; Information extraction; Social media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GROUPWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

DATA CAPTURING; DECISION SUPPORTS; EXPERIENCE OUTCOMES; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POLICY MAKERS; REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85014798275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2998181.2998353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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