Opinion mining and sentiment analysis in policy formulation initiatives: The EU-community approach

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9249, Issue , 2015, Pages 147-160

  Charalabidis, Yannis ^a   Maragoudakis, Manolis ^a   Loukis, Euripides ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Opinion mining; Public policy; Sentiment analysis; Social media

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES;

COMMUNITY PROJECT; EUROPEAN UNION; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; OPINION MINING; POLICY COMMUNITY; POLICY FORMULATION; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84944715824     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22500-5_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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