Good news or bad news? Conducting sentiment analysis on Dutch text to distinguish between positive and negative relations

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-94

  van Atteveldt, Wouter ^a   Kleinnijenhuis, Jan ^b   Ruigrok, Nel ^b   Schlobach, Stefan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic content analysis; Polarity; Political communication; Semantic network analysis; Sentiment analysis; Valence

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249155447     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331680802154145     Document Type: Article

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