Identifying opinion subgroups in arabic online discussions

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 829-835

  Abu Jbara, Amjad ^a   King, Ben ^a   Diab, Mona ^b   Radev, Dragomir ^a  

^a The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b The George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARABIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ATTITUDE VECTORS; DATA SET; FORMAL REPRESENTATIONS; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; OPINION MINING; SIGNED NETWORKS; VECTOR SPACE REPRESENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84907300974     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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