Extracting socio-cultural networks of the Sudan from open-source, large-scale text data

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 328-339

  Diesner, Jana ^a   Carley, Kathleen M ^b   Tambayong, Laurent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated text analysis; Dynamic network analysis; Social networks; Sudan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865417864     PISSN: 1381298X     EISSN: 15729346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10588-012-9126-x     Document Type: Article

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