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Sentiment Uncertainty and Spam in Twitter Streams and Its Implications for General Purpose Realtime Sentiment Analysis

Computation and Language 2015-09-28 v1

Abstract

State of the art benchmarks for Twitter Sentiment Analysis do not consider the fact that for more than half of the tweets from the public stream a distinct sentiment cannot be chosen. This paper provides a new perspective on Twitter Sentiment Analysis by highlighting the necessity of explicitly incorporating uncertainty. Moreover, a dataset of high quality to evaluate solutions for this new problem is introduced and made publicly available.

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@article{arxiv.1509.07612,
  title  = {Sentiment Uncertainty and Spam in Twitter Streams and Its Implications for General Purpose Realtime Sentiment Analysis},
  author = {Nils Haldenwang and Oliver Vornberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.07612},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

3 pages, 1 figure, accepted at GSCL '15