Predicting political preference of Twitter users

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 298-305

  Makazhanov, Aibek ^a   Rafiei, Davood ^b  

^a NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TEXT PROCESSING;

ELECTION CAMPAIGN; F-MEASURE; GENERAL ELECTIONS; LANGUAGE MODEL; POLITICAL PARTIES; PREDICTION MODEL; PREFERENCE CHANGE; TEXT CLASSIFICATION;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84893244236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2492517.2492527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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