Searching Twitter: Separating the Tweet from the Chaff

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 161-168

  Hurlock, Jonathan ^a   Wilson, Max L ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SEARCH ENGINES;

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS; MEDIA CONTENT; REAL-TIME STREAMS; RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SEARCH TASKS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85102058172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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