Finding meaning in online, very-large scale conversations

Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 307-327

  Smith, Brian K ^a   Sharma, Priya ^a   Lim, Kyu Yon ^a   Akilli, Goknur Kaplan ^a   Kim, Kyoungna ^a   Fujimoto, Toru ^a   Hooper, Paula ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pennsylvania State University ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-974-8.ch015     Document Type: Chapter

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