Social sciences - Microsoft Research

Ed Cutrell, Srinath Bala, Chetan Bansal, Andrew Cross, Naren Datha, Aldo John, Rahul Kumar, Madhusudan Parthasarathy, Siddharth Prakash, Sriram Rajamani, Bill Thies

MSR-TR-2013-127 | December 2013

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Prominent Features of Rumor Propagation in Online Social Media

Sejeong Kwon, Meeyoung Cha, Kyomin Jung, Wei Chen, Yajun Wang

In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’2013), Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., Dec. 2013. | December 2013

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Tweet Entity Linking Data: IE-driven and IR-driven sets

In this dataset, we release the labeled data for people to evaluate and compare entity linking systems on tweets.

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Understanding jugaad: ICTD and the tensions of appropriation, innovation and utility

Nimmi Rangaswamy, Melissa Densmore

Proceedings of ICTD 2013, the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Cape Town, South Africa | December 2013

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Computational social science and social computing

Winter Mason, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Hanna Wallach

Mach Learn | November 2013, Vol 95: pp. 257-260

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The First-Order Approach to Merger Analysis

Sonia Jaffe, E. Glen Weyl

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | November 2013