A text mining framework for advancing sustainability indicators

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 128-138

  Rivera, Samuel J ^a   Minsker, Barbara S ^a   Work, Daniel B ^a   Roth, Dan ^b  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Informatics; Knowledge discovery; Sustainability indicators; Text mining

Indexed keywords

INFORMATICS; SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS; TEXT MINING;

DATA MINING;

ALGORITHM; DATA MINING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATICS; LANGUAGE; SUSTAINABILITY; TRACKING;

CALIFORNIA; SAN MATEO COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907071511     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.08.016     Document Type: Article

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