Inferring user political preferences from streaming communications

52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 186-196

  Volkova, Svitlana ^a   Coppersmith, Glen ^a   Van Durme, Benjamin ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIME BASED; USER SELECTION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84906922116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p14-1018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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