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Measuring public opinion is a key focus during democratic elections, enabling candidates to gauge their popularity and alter their campaign strategies accordingly. Traditional survey polling remains the most popular estimation technique,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Robin Hendrickx , Rossella Arcucci , Julio Amador Dıaz Lopez , Yi-Ke Guo , Mark Kennedy

Title: Sentiment Analysis of Spanish Political Party Communications on Twitter Using Pre-trained Language Models Authors: Chuqiao Song, Shunzhang Chen, Xinyi Cai, Hao Chen Comments: 21 pages, 6 figures Abstract: This study investigates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Chuqiao Song , Shunzhang Chen , Xinyi Cai , Hao Chen

Access to word-sentiment associations is useful for many applications, including sentiment analysis, stance detection, and linguistic analysis. However, manually assigning fine-grained sentiment association scores to words has many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Svetlana Kiritchenko , Saif M. Mohammad

The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for a comprehensive understanding of public sentiment and reactions. Despite the availability of numerous public datasets on COVID-19, some reaching volumes of up to 100…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Qiang Yang , Xiuying Chen , Changsheng Ma , Rui Yin , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang

Social media platforms have transformed the dynamics of collective opinion formation, enabling rapid, large-scale interactions while simultaneously exposing online discourse to polarization and manipulation. Traditional models of opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-18 Shigefumi Hata , Renaud Lambiotte , Hiroya Nakao , Ryota Kobayashi

In this paper we propose a new parallel architecture based on Big Data technologies for real-time sentiment analysis on microblogging posts. Polypus is a modular framework that provides the following functionalities: (1) massive text…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Rodrigo Martínez-Castaño , Juan C. Pichel , Pablo Gamallo

Recent grassroots movements have suggested that online social networks might play a key role in their organization, as adherents have a fast, many-to-many, communication channel to help coordinate their mobilization. The structure and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Raquel Alvarez , David Garcia , Yamir Moreno , Frank Schweitzer

Social Media provides a trove of information that, if aggregated and analysed appropriately can provide important statistical indicators to policy makers. In some situations these indicators are not available through other mechanisms. For…

Large-scale data resulting from users online interactions provide the ultimate source of information to study emergent social phenomena on the Web. From individual actions of users to observable collective behaviors, different mechanisms…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 Marija Mitrović , Georgios Paltoglou , Bosiljka Tadić

This work extends the set of works which deal with the popular problem of sentiment analysis in Twitter. It investigates the most popular document ("tweet") representation methods which feed sentiment evaluation mechanisms. In particular,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Evangelos Psomakelis , Konstantinos Tserpes , Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos , Theodora Varvarigou

This paper discusses the results obtained for different techniques applied for performing the sentiment analysis of social media (Twitter) code-mixed text written in Hinglish. The various stages involved in performing the sentiment analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Gaurav Singh

Traditional sentiment analysis approaches tackle problems like ternary (3-category) and fine-grained (5-category) classification by learning the tasks separately. We argue that such classification tasks are correlated and we propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Georgios Balikas , Simon Moura , Massih-Reza Amini

Social media play a key role in shaping citizens' political opinion. According to the Eurobarometer, the percentage of EU citizens employing online social networks on a daily basis has increased from 18% in 2010 to 48% in 2019. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Tommaso Radicioni , Fabio Saracco , Elena Pavan , Tiziano Squartini

With the growth of social medias, such as Twitter, plenty of user-generated data emerge daily. The short texts published on Twitter -- the tweets -- have earned significant attention as a rich source of information to guide many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Sérgio Barreto , Ricardo Moura , Jonnathan Carvalho , Aline Paes , Alexandre Plastino

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the informational content of sentiment extracted from news articles about the state of the economy. We propose a fine-grained aspect-based sentiment analysis that has two main characteristics: 1) we…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Luca Barbaglia , Sergio Consoli , Sebastiano Manzan

Along with the Coronavirus pandemic, another crisis has manifested itself in the form of mass fear and panic phenomena, fueled by incomplete and often inaccurate information. There is therefore a tremendous need to address and better…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Jim Samuel , G. G. Md. Nawaz Ali , Md. Mokhlesur Rahman , Ek Esawi , Yana Samuel

A positive working climate is essential in modern software development. It enhances productivity since a satisfied developer tends to deliver better results. Sentiment analysis tools are a means to analyze and classify textual communication…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Martin Obaidi , Henrik Holm , Kurt Schneider , Jil Klünder

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

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

With the rising participation of the common mass in social media, it is increasingly common now for policymakers/journalists to create online polls on social media to understand the political leanings of people in specific locations. The…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Souvic Chakraborty , Pawan Goyal , Animesh Mukherjee