Reducing controversy by connecting opposing views

WSDM 2017 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 81-90

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

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES;

ALGORITHMIC TECHNIQUES; EDGE ADDITION; GREEDY HEURISTICS; LINK PREDICTION; RANDOM WALK; SIMPLE MODELING; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATE OF THE ART;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 85015262963     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3018661.3018703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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