Sentiment network analysis of taleban and RFE/RL open-source content about Afghanistan

Proceedings - 2012 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, EISIC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 303-310

  Danowski, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

positivity ratios; semantic networks; sentiment network analysis; time series analysis; web mining

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; CHAOTIC OSCILLATION; COUNTER TERRORISM; INTENSITY RATIO; NEGATIVE SENTIMENTS; OPEN-SOURCE; PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT; PERIOD OF OSCILLATION; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; POSITIVITY RATIOS; SEED WORDS; SEMANTIC NETWORK; SHORTEST PATH; THIRD QUARTERS; TIME INTERVAL; TIME SLICE; WEB MINING;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; SEMANTICS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84868564977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EISIC.2012.54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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