The politics of comments : Predicting political orientation of news stories with commenters' sentiment patterns

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 113-122

  Park, Souneil ^a   Ko, Minsam ^a   Kim, Jungwoo ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Song, Junehwa ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Commenters; Comments; Political news; Political view identification; Sentiment pattern

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

COMMENTERS; COMMENTS; POLITICAL NEWS; POLITICAL VIEWS; SENTIMENT PATTERN;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 79955149258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1958824.1958842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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