Fightin' words: Lexical feature selection and evaluation for identifying the content of political conflict

Political Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 372-403

  Monroe, Burt L ^a   Colaresi, Michael P ^b   Quinn, Kevin M ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 62249190300     PISSN: 10471987     EISSN: 14764989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpn018     Document Type: Article

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