Text analytics to support sense-making in social media: A language-action perspective

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 427-464

  Abbasi, Ahmed ^a   Zhou, Yilu ^b   Deng, Shasha ^c   Zhang, Pengzhu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

Author keywords

Coherence analysis; Conversation disentanglement; Design science; Language action perspective; Natural language processing; Social media; Text analytics

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

COHERENCE ANALYSIS; CONVERSATION DISENTANGLEMENT; DESIGN SCIENCE; LANGUAGE-ACTION PERSPECTIVE; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEXT ANALYTICS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85047009663     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2018/13239     Document Type: Article

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