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Sentiment analysis predicts the presence of positive or negative emotions in a text document. In this paper we consider higher dimensional extensions of the sentiment concept, which represent a richer set of human emotions. Our approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-08-09 Seungyeon Kim , Fuxin Li , Guy Lebanon , Irfan Essa

Every day, the world is flooded by millions of messages and statements posted on Twitter or Facebook. Social media platforms try to protect users' personal data, but there still is a real risk of misuse, including elections manipulation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Joanna Baran , Michał Kajstura , Maciej Ziółkowski , Krzysztof Rajda

A model of the identification of information tonality, based on Bayesian approach and neural networks was described. In the context of this paper tonality means positive or negative tone of both the whole information and its parts which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 D. V. Lande

This article presents a short case study in text analysis: the scoring of Twitter posts for positive, negative, or neutral sentiment directed towards particular US politicians. The study requires selection of a sub-sample of representative…

Applications · Statistics 2013-03-05 Matt Taddy

We here study the behavior of political party members aiming at identifying how ideological communities are created and evolve over time in diverse (fragmented and non-fragmented) party systems. Using public voting data of both Brazil and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Carlos H. G. Ferreira , Breno de Souza Matos , Jusssara M. Almeida

Analysing sentiment of tweets is important as it helps to determine the users' opinion. Knowing people's opinion is crucial for several purposes starting from gathering knowledge about customer base, e-governance, campaigning and many more.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Lahari Poddar , Kishaloy Halder , Xianyan Jia

Parliamentary and legislative debate transcripts provide access to information concerning the opinions, positions and policy preferences of elected politicians. They attract attention from researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Gavin Abercrombie , Riza Batista-Navarro

The framing of political issues can influence policy and public opinion. Even though the public plays a key role in creating and spreading frames, little is known about how ordinary people on social media frame political issues. By creating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Julia Mendelsohn , Ceren Budak , David Jurgens

Opinion mining, also known as sentiment analysis, is a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) that focuses on identifying and extracting subjective information in textual material. This can include determining the overall sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Nour Eddine Zekaoui , Siham Yousfi , Maryem Rhanoui , Mounia Mikram

Sentiment Analysis is the task of classifying documents based on the sentiments expressed in textual form, this can be achieved by using lexical and semantic methods. The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of semantics to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Ukachi Osisiogu

The increasing polarization of online political discourse calls for computational tools that automatically detect and monitor ideological divides in social media. We introduce a minimally supervised method that leverages the network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Valentin Hofmann , Xiaowen Dong , Janet B. Pierrehumbert , Hinrich Schütze

Ideological divisions in the United States have become increasingly prominent in daily communication. Accordingly, there has been much research on political polarization, including many recent efforts that take a computational perspective.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Zhiping Xiao , Jeffrey Zhu , Yining Wang , Pei Zhou , Wen Hong Lam , Mason A. Porter , Yizhou Sun

Participants in political discourse employ rhetorical strategies -- such as hedging, attributions, or denials -- to display varying degrees of belief commitments to claims proposed by themselves or others. Traditionally, political…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Ankita Gupta , Su Lin Blodgett , Justin H Gross , Brendan O'Connor

Sentiment analysis or opinion mining is the field of study related to analyze opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes, and emotions of users which they express on social media and other online resources. The revolution of social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Muhammad Zubair Asghar , Shakeel Ahmad , Afsana Marwat , Fazal Masud Kundi

We introduce a classification scheme for detecting political bias in long text content such as newspaper opinion articles. Obtaining long text data and annotations at sufficient scale for training is difficult, but it is relatively easy to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Aditya Saligrama

Sentiment analysis is one of the most widely used techniques in text analysis. Recent advancements with Large Language Models have made it more accurate and accessible than ever, allowing researchers to classify text with only a plain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Michael Burnham

Members of different political groups not only disagree about issues but also dislike and distrust each other. While social media can amplify this emotional divide -- called affective polarization by political scientists -- there is a lack…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Kristina Lerman , Dan Feldman , Zihao He , Ashwin Rao

The task of sentiment analysis of reviews is carried out using manually built / automatically generated lexicon resources of their own with which terms are matched with lexicon to compute the term count for positive and negative polarity.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-15 K Paramesha , K C Ravishankar

Traditional media outlets are known to report political news in a biased way, potentially affecting the political beliefs of the audience and even altering their voting behaviors. Many researchers focus on automatically detecting and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Timo Spinde , Felix Hamborg , Karsten Donnay , Angelica Becerra , Bela Gipp

Recent advances in machine learning have led to computer systems that are human-like in behaviour. Sentiment analysis, the automatic determination of emotions in text, is allowing us to capitalize on substantial previously unattainable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Saif M. Mohammad