Using explicit linguistic expressions of preference in social media to predict voting behavior

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 207-214

  O'Banion, Shawn ^a   Birnbaum, Larry ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Opinion identification and extraction; Personalization; Prediction; Recommendation systems; Social media analysis; Text mining

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA MINING; FORECASTING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE EXPRESSIONS; OPINION IDENTIFICATIONS; PERSONALIZATIONS; PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS; TEXT MINING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84893270637     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2492517.2492538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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