Detecting subgroups in online discussions by modeling positive and negative relations among participants

EMNLP-CoNLL 2012 - 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 59-70

  Hassan, Ahmed ^a   Abu Jbara, Amjad ^b   Radev, Dragomir ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; SIGNED NETWORKS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876696203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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