Opinion mining in social media: Modeling, simulating, and forecasting political opinions in the web

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 470-479

  Sobkowicz, Pawel ^a   Kaschesky, Michael ^a   Bouchard, Guillaume ^b  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPE   (France)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; Management; Measurement; Opinion mining; Policy modeling; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866276895     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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