Can Collective Sentiment Expressed on Twitter Predict Political Elections?

Proceedings of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1770-1771

  Chung, Jessica ^a   Mustafaraj, Eni ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

PREDICTIVE POWER; SOCIAL MEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85167606442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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