Close encounters of the conceptual kind: Disambiguating social structure from text

Big Data and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Hannigan, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Data; natural language processing; network analysis; organizational research; social structure; text analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006848983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951715608655     Document Type: Note

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