Detecting contrast patterns in newspaper articles by combining discourse analysis and text mining

Pragmatics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 647-684

  Pollak, Senja ^e   Coesemans, Roel ^a   Daelemans, Walter ^b   Lavrač, Nada ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b CLiPS Computational Linguistics Group   (Belgium)

^c University of Nova Gorica ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Ideology; Kenyan elections; Pragmatics; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857871448     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.21.4.07pol     Document Type: Article

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