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Misinformation in Social Networks, Analyzing Twitter During Crisis Events

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Crisis management; Information retrieval; Mining social media data; Misinformation; Ranking

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OSM :

Online Social Media

SVM :

Support Vector Machine, a machine learning technique used for classification

Rank-SVM :

Rank-SVM is an application of the SVM technique; it is a pair-wise ranking method, which adaptively sorts the documents by their relevance to a specific query

PRF :

Pseudo relevance feedback refers to an information retrieval technique that applies re-ranking to improve the performance of ranking results

Centrality Measures :

Refers to a set of social network analysis (SNA) metrics that assigns scores to nodes based on their importance with respect to other nodes and edges in the graph

Definition

Misinformation on Twitter refers to wrong information/facts spread by users intentionally or unintentionally via their tweets.

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Emergence and advances in the Internet and mobile services over the past years have revolutionized the landscape of...

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Gupta, A., Kumaraguru, P. (2014). Misinformation in Social Networks, Analyzing Twitter During Crisis Events. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_296

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