Culture Matters: A Survey Study of Social Q&A Behavior

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 409-416

  Yang, Jiang ^a,b   Morris, Meredith Ringel ^c   Teevan, Jaime ^c   Adamic, Lada A ^a,b   Ackerman, Mark S ^a,b  

^a School of Information North   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

CHINA AND INDIA; COGNITIVE PATTERNS; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; NETWORKING TOOLS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKINGS; QUESTION-ASKING; SEARCH SYSTEM; SOCIAL SEARCH; SOCIAL-NETWORKING; UNITED KINGDOM;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85058360336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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