Analyzing Political Rhetoric in Conservative and Liberal Weblogs Related to the Construction of the "Ground Zero Mosque"

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-14

  Dehghani, Morteza ^a   Sagae, Kenji ^a   Sachdeva, Sonya ^b   Gratch, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blog analysis; Ground Zero mosque; LDA; LIWC; sacred rhetoric; SVM; text classification; topic modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894435300     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2013.826613     Document Type: Article

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