A user-centric model of voting intention from Social Media

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 993-1003

  Lampos, Vasileios ^a   Preoţiuc Pietro, Daniel ^a   Cohn, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BILINEAR MODELS; FINANCIAL INDICATOR; INTENTION PREDICTIONS; OUTPUT VARIABLES; REGULARISATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; USER-CENTRIC MODELING; WORD FREQUENCIES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84907317085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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