An automated approach to investigating the online media coverage of U.S. presidential elections

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 121-132

  Scharl, Arno ^a   Weichselbraun, Albert ^b  

^a MODUL UNIVERSITY VIENNA   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Keyword analysis; Media monitoring; Natural language processing; Semantic orientation; U.S. presidential elections; Web mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349152872     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331680802149582     Document Type: Article

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