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  1. School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

    Jana Diesner & Chieh-Li Chin

  2. Social Media Research Foundation, Redwood City, CA, USA

    Marc A. Smith

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Diesner, J., Chin, CL., Smith, M.A. (2018). Combining Online Social Networks with Text Analysis. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_328

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