Relating political party mentions on twitter with polls and election results

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 986, Issue , 2013, Pages 68-71

  Sanders, Eric ^a   Van Den Bosch, Antal ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elections; Polls; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ERROR STATISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ELECTIONS; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MICRO-BLOGGING PLATFORMS; NETHERLANDS; PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS; POLITICAL PARTIES; POLLS; TWITTER;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84922560332     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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