A study of tweet veracity to separate rumours from counter-rumours

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn Part F129683, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Chua, Alton Y K ^a   Banerjee, Snehasish ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Counter rumour; information quality; information veracity; Online rumour; Twitter; User generated content

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

COUNTER-RUMOUR; INFORMATION QUALITY; INFORMATION VERACITY; ONLINE RUMOUR; TWITTER; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85028710174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3097286.3097290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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