Predicting the political alignment of twitter users

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 192-199

  Conover, Michael D ^a   Gonçalves, Bruno ^a   Ratkiewicz, Jacob ^a   Flammini, Alessandro ^a   Menczer, Filippo ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CONTENT AND STRUCTURE; CONTENT-BASED METHODS; DATA SETS; HIDDEN STRUCTURES; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; POLITICAL COMMUNICATION; POLITICAL INFORMATION; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; PUBLIC OPINIONS; REAL TIME; SOCIAL MEDIA; TOPIC DETECTION;

ALIGNMENT; COMMUNICATION; FORECASTING; MACHINERY; METADATA; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84856164136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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