Understanding public opinions from geosocial media

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Shanqi ^a   Feick, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geosocial media; Public sentiment; Text analysis; Topic modelling; User generated content

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971349380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi5060074     Document Type: Article

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