Detecting tension in online communities with computational Twitter analysis

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 95, Issue , 2015, Pages 96-108

  Burnap, Pete ^a   Rana, Omer F ^a   Avis, Nick ^a   Williams, Matthew ^b   Housley, William ^b   Edwards, Adam ^b   Morgan, Jeffrey ^b   Sloan, Luke ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Machine learning; Membership categorization analysis; Opinion mining; Sentiment analysis; Social media analysis; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CONVERSATION ANALYSIS; MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIZATION ANALYSIS; OPINION MINING; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS; TEXT MINING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84929656970     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.04.013     Document Type: Article

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