A Machine Learning Approach to Twitter User Classification

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 281-288

  Pennacchiotti, Marco ^a   Popescu, Ana Maria ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEHAVIOR NETWORK; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; NETWORK STRUCTURES; POLITICAL ORIENTATION; SETS OF FEATURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; USER BEHAVIORS; USER CLASSIFICATION; USER INFORMATION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85064472811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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