Cyber hate speech on twitter: An application of machine classification and statistical modeling for policy and decision making

Policy and Internet

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 223-242

  Burnap, Pete ^a   Williams, Matthew L ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cyber hate; ensemble classifier; hate speech; Internet; machine classification; policy; statistical modeling; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930475861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19442866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/poi3.85     Document Type: Article

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