COSMOS: Towards an integrated and scalable service for analysing social media on demand

International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 80-100

  Burnap, Peter ^a   Rana, Omer ^a   Williams, Matthew ^b   Housley, William ^b   Edwards, Adam ^b   Morgan, Jeffrey ^b   Sloan, Luke ^b   Conejero, Javier ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

computational sociology; information search and retrieval; performance evaluation; text analysis

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL SOCIOLOGY; INFORMATION SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIAS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS; TEXT ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84923838908     PISSN: 17445760     EISSN: 17445779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17445760.2014.902057     Document Type: Article

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