Quantifying political polarity based on bipartite opinion networks

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2-11

  Akoglu, Leman ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BIPARTITE NETWORK; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; DEGREE DISTRIBUTIONS; LINEAR ALGORITHMS; NETWORK EFFECTS; POLITICAL ISSUES; SIGNED NETWORKS; SYNTHETIC GRAPHS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84909977581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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