Toward the automatic extraction of policy networks using web links and documents

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2404-2417

  Moschopoulos, Theodosis ^a   Iosif, Elias ^a   Demetropoulou, Leeda ^a   Potamianos, Alexandros ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth Shri ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

link analysis; policy actors; Policy networks; relatedness metrics; similarity metrics; social networks; web search

Indexed keywords

LINK ANALYSIS; POLICY NETWORKS; RELATEDNESS METRICS; SIMILARITY METRICS; WEB SEARCHES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES; SURVEYS; WEBSITES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84883404630     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2012.159     Document Type: Article

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