Modelling political disaffection from Twitter data

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery and Opinion Mining, WISDOM 2013 - Held in Conjunction with SIGKDD 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Monti, Corrado ^a   Rozza, Alessandro ^b   Zappella, Giovanni ^a   Zignani, Matteo ^a   Arvidsson, Adam ^a   Colleoni, Elanor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^c Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS;

LACK OF CONFIDENCES; MEDIA ATTENTION; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; OPINION MINING; OPINION SURVEYS; POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS; POLITICAL PARTIES; POLITICAL PROCESS; PUBLIC OPINIONS; TIMES SERIES;

TIME SERIES;

EID: 84890778323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2502069.2502072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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