Political leaning categorization by exploring subjectivities in political blogs

Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Data Mining, DMIN 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 647-653

  Jiang, Maojin ^a   Argamon, Shlomo ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Opinion expression; Political leaning categorization; Subjectivity analysis; Text mining

Indexed keywords

BAG OF WORDS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; OPINION EXPRESSION; POLITICAL LEANING CATEGORIZATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS; SUBJECTIVITY ANALYSIS; TEXT CATEGORIZATIONS; TEXT MINING;

CLASSIFIERS; DATA MINING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERNET; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 62649095810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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