Assessment of online public opinions on large infrastructure projects: A case study of the Three Gorges Project in China

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Volumn 61, Issue , 2016, Pages 38-51

  Jiang, Hanchen ^a   Qiang, Maoshan ^a   Lin, Peng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Public opinion assessment; Sentiment analysis; Social media; Three Gorges Project; Topic modeling

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE DAMS; DATA MINING; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CHINA; PUBLIC OPINIONS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; THREE GORGES PROJECT; TOPIC MODELING;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; THREE GORGES;

EID: 84978284976     PISSN: 01959255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2016.06.004     Document Type: Article

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