Driving Regulation: Using Topic Models to Examine Political Contention in the U.S. Trucking Industry

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 182-194

  Levy, Karen E C ^a   Franklin, Michael ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

e rulemaking; latent Dirichlet allocation; public comments; topic modeling; trucking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898883621     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439313506847     Document Type: Article

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