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As one of the most extensive social networking services, Twitter has more than 300 million active users as of 2022. Among its many functions, Twitter is now one of the go-to platforms for consumers to share their opinions about products or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Shengyang Wu , Yi Gao

This study aims to understand the South African political context by analysing the sentiments shared on Twitter during the local government elections. An emphasis on the analysis was placed on understanding the discussions led around four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Mashadi Ledwaba , Vukosi Marivate

Consumption of misinformation can lead to negative consequences that impact the individual and society. To help mitigate the influence of misinformation on human beliefs, algorithmic labels providing context about content accuracy and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Erik J Schlicht

In order to face the complexity of business environments and detect priorities while triggering contingency strategies, we propose a new methodological approach that combines text mining, social network and big data analytics, with the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-26 M. A. Barchiesi , A. Fronzetti Colladon

Measuring the number of "likes" in Twitter and the number of bills voted in favor by the members of the Chilean Chambers of Deputies. We empirically study how signals of agreement in Twitter translates into cross-cutting voting during a…

General Economics · Economics 2021-09-07 Pablo Henríquez , Jorge Sabat , José Patrìcio Sullivan

A sentiment analysis system powered by machine learning was created in this study to improve real-time social network public opinion monitoring. For sophisticated sentiment identification, the suggested approach combines cutting-edge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Arsen Tolebay Nurlanuly

We conduct an extensive meta-regression analysis of counterfactual programme evaluations from Italy, considering both published and grey literature on enterprise and innovation policies. We specify a multilevel model for the probability of…

Applications · Statistics 2021-10-06 Chiara Bocci , Annalisa Caloffi , Marco Mariani , Alessandro Sterlacchini

In today's world, everyone is expressive in some way, and the focus of this project is on people's opinions about rising electricity prices in United Kingdom and India using data from Twitter, a micro-blogging platform on which people post…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Pardeep Kaur , Maryam Edalati

Predictive analysis of social media data has attracted considerable attention from the research community as well as the business world because of the essential and actionable information it can provide. Over the years, extensive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Ugur Kursuncu , Manas Gaur , Usha Lokala , Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan , Amit Sheth , I. Budak Arpinar

This paper analyses changes in public opinion by tracking political discussions in which people voluntarily engage online. Unlike polls or surveys, our approach does not elicit opinions but approximates what the public thinks by analysing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2010-09-22 Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon , Rafael E. Banchs , Andreas Kaltenbrunner

Social media has been a paramount arena for election campaigns for political actors. While many studies have been paying attention to the political campaigns related to partisanship, politicians also can conduct different campaigns…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Taichi Murayama , Akira Matsui , Kunihiro Miyazaki , Yasuko Matsubara , Yasushi Sakurai

Social networks offer a ready channel for fake and misleading news to spread and exert influence. This paper examines the performance of different reputation algorithms when applied to a large and statistically significant portion of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Rakshit Agrawal , Luca de Alfaro , Gabriele Ballarin , Stefano Moret , Massimo Di Pierro , Eugenio Tacchini , Marco L. Della Vedova

This aim of this article is to explore the potential use of Wikipedia page view data for predicting electoral results. Responding to previous critiques of work using socially generated data to predict elections, which have argued that these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Taha Yasseri , Jonathan Bright

During sudden onset crisis events, the presence of spam, rumors and fake content on Twitter reduces the value of information contained on its messages (or "tweets"). A possible solution to this problem is to use machine learning to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Aditi Gupta , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru , Carlos Castillo , Patrick Meier

Social media is now the predominant source of information due to the availability of immediate public response. As a result, social media data has become a valuable resource for comprehending public sentiments. Studies have shown that it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Daniyar Amangeldi , Aida Usmanova , Pakizar Shamoi

We show how emotions extracted from macroeconomic news can be used to explain and forecast future behaviour of sovereign bond yield spreads in Italy and Spain. We use a big, open-source, database known as Global Database of Events, Language…

General Economics · Economics 2021-07-01 Sergio Consoli , Luca Tiozzo Pezzoli , Elisa Tosetti

Background: Studies examining how sentiment on social media varies depending on timing and location appear to produce inconsistent results, making it hard to design systems that use sentiment to detect localized events for public health…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Zubair Shah , Paige Martin , Enrico Coiera , Kenneth D. Mandl , Adam G. Dunn

Over the past couple of years, the topic of "fake news" and its influence over people's opinions has become a growing cause for concern. Although the spread of disinformation on the Internet is not a new phenomenon, the widespread use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jillian Tompkins

There are some shreds of evidence that social opinion polarization leads to the breakup of the relationship, some in the scale of small communities, but others can divide large organizations or even a nation. The legacy methodology to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Andry Alamsyah , Wachda Yuniar Rochmah , Arina Nahya Nurnafia

Centrality is one of the most studied concepts in social network analysis. There is a huge literature regarding centrality measures, as ways to identify the most relevant users in a social network. The challenge is to find measures that can…

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