Analyzing unstructured text data: Using latent categorization to identify intellectual communities in information systems

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 884-896

  Larsen, Kai R ^a   Monarchi, David E ^a   Hovorka, Dirk S ^a   Bailey, Christopher N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Latent Categorization Method; Organization of information systems; Research communities; Research topics; Subfields; Unstructured data analysis

Indexed keywords

LATENT CATEGORIZATION METHOD; ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RESEARCH TOPICS; SUBFIELDS; UNSTRUCTURED DATA ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 53349151358     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2008.02.009     Document Type: Article

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