Changing Perspectives: Is It Sufficient to Detect Social Bots?

Grimme, Christian; Assenmacher, Dennis; Adam, Lena

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Changing Perspectives: Is It Sufficient to Detect Social Bots?

Grimme, Christian, Assenmacher, Dennis, Adam, Lena·2018·Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Authors: Grimme, C., Assenmacher, D., & Adam, L.
Affiliations: University of Münster (DE)
Corresponding author: Grimme, Christian
Assenmacher, Dennis
ORCID: Grimme, Christian
Assenmacher, Dennis
Venue: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published: 2018
Pages: 445-461
ISSN: 0302-9743 (ISSN-L)
1611-3349
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91521-0_32
OpenAlex: W2805358007
Cited by: 93
References: 17
Citations by year: 2025: 9 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 6
FWCI: 9.22
Type: conference paper
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (tdm)
www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (vor)
Locations: Lecture notes in computer science (publishedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Spam and Phishing Detection
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Keywords: social bot detection, automated accounts, Twitter, hybrid detection, public opinion manipulation, strategic attack

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