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Recommending Targeted Strangers from Whom to Solicit Information on Social Media
Jalal Mahmud, Michelle X. Zhou, Nimrod Megiddo +2
We present an intelligent, crowd-powered information collection system that automatically identifies and asks target-ed strangers on Twitter for desired information (e.g., cur-rent…
Optimizing The Selection of Strangers To Answer Questions in Social Media
Jalal Mahmud, Michelle Zhou, Nimrod Megiddo +2
Millions of people express themselves on public social media, such as Twitter. Through their posts, these people may reveal themselves as potentially valuable sources of informatio…
Home Location Identification of Twitter Users
Jalal Mahmud, Jeffrey Nichols, Clemens Drews
We present a new algorithm for inferring the home location of Twitter users at different granularities, including city, state, time zone or geographic region, using the content of…