Automatic annotation of semantic fields for political science research

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-120

  Klebanov, Beata Beigman ^a   Diermeier, Daniel ^a   Beigman, Eyal ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Blair; Clustering; Framing; Lexical cohesion; Political communication; Rhetoric; Semantic fields; Speech; Thatcher; Topic

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249117680     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331680802149640     Document Type: Article

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