Detecting and characterizing eating-disorder communities on social media

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

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 91-100

  Wang, Tao ^a   Brede, Markus ^b   Ianni, Antonella ^b   Mentzakis, Emmanouil ^c  

^a IfLS   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of ECS ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA MINING; DISEASES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES;

BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; EATING DISORDERS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NETWORK CONNECTION; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; SOCIAL CONNECTION; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85015305910     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3018661.3018706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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