Classifying the Political Leaning of News Articles and Users from User Votes

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 417-424

  Zhou, Daniel Xiaodan ^a   Resnick, Paul ^a   Mei, Qiaozhu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPERVISED LEARNING;

COSINE SIMILARITY; CROSS VALIDATION; NEWS AGGREGATORS; NEWS ARTICLES; POLITICAL NEWS; PROPAGATION ALGORITHM; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS; SOCIAL DATUM; SOCIAL NEWS; TEXT FEATURE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84968731305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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