Making Sense of Microblogs
Miles EfronGraduate School of Library and Information ScienceUniversity of Illinois, [email protected]://people.lis.illinois.edu/~mefron
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Current Microblog Search
• search articulation: (topical?) keyword query• unit of retrieval: tweet• ranking criterion: temporal, then conjunctive
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#iran09
#sigir2010
#toRead #informationScience
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