Sentiment strength detection for the social web

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 163-173

  Thelwall, Mike ^a   Buckley, Kevan ^a   Paltoglou, Georgios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; DATA SETS; MACHINE-LEARNING; PRODUCT REVIEWS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; WEB DATA; YOUTUBE;

DATA MINING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 83655167217     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21662     Document Type: Article

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