Opinion mining from weblogs and its relevance for socio-political research

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST

Volumn 85, Issue PART 2, 2012, Pages 134-145

  Singh, Vivek Kumar ^a   Mukherjee, Mousumi ^b   Mehta, Ghanshyam Kumar ^b   Garg, Shekhar ^b   Tiwari, Nisha ^b  

^a SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Blogosphere; Computational sociology; Opinion mining; Sentiment analysis; Social computing

Indexed keywords

BLOGOSPHERES; COMPUTATIONAL SOCIOLOGY; OPINION MINING; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL COMPUTING;

BLOGS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA MINING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; METADATA; SEMANTICS;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 84888424390     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27308-7_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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