Classifying party affiliation from political speech

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-48

  Yu, Bei ^a   Kaufmann, Stefan ^b   Diermeier, Daniel ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Generalizability; Ideology; Machine learning; Text classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249173657     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331680802149608     Document Type: Article

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