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Measuring and forecasting opinion trends from real-time social media is a long-standing goal of big-data analytics. Despite its importance, there has been no conclusive scientific evidence so far that social media activity can capture the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Alexandre Bovet , Flaviano Morone , Hernan A. Makse

Sentiment analysis (SA) is an emerging field in text mining. It is the process of computationally identifying and categorizing opinions expressed in a piece of text over different social media platforms. Social media plays an essential role…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sudhanshu Kumar , Partha Pratim Roy , Debi Prosad Dogra , Byung-Gyu Kim

Electoral prediction from Twitter data is an appealing research topic. It seems relatively straightforward and the prevailing view is overly optimistic. This is problematic because while simple approaches are assumed to be good enough, core…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Daniel Gayo-Avello

Tweets pertaining to a single event, such as a national election, can number in the hundreds of millions. Automatically analyzing them is beneficial in many downstream natural language applications such as question answering and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-11-06 Saif M. Mohammad , Svetlana Kiritchenko , Joel Martin

In the era of rapid technological advancement, social media platforms such as Twitter (X) have emerged as indispensable tools for gathering consumer insights, capturing diverse opinions, and understanding public attitudes. This research…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-23 S M Rakib Ul Karim , Rownak Ara Rasul , Tunazzina Sultana

Twitter is among the most used online platforms for the political communications, due to the concision of its messages (which is particularly suitable for political slogans) and the quick diffusion of messages. Especially when the argument…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Giacomo Aletti , Irene Crimaldi , Fabio Saracco

In this paper, we present TwiSent, a sentiment analysis system for Twitter. Based on the topic searched, TwiSent collects tweets pertaining to it and categorizes them into the different polarity classes positive, negative and objective.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Subhabrata Mukherjee , Akshat Malu , A. R. Balamurali , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Over the past decade humans have experienced exponential growth in the use of online resources, in particular social media and microblogging websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and also mobile applications such as WhatsApp, Line,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Rishabh Soni , K. James Mathai

Sentiment Analysis is currently a vital area of research. With the advancement in the use of the internet, the creation of social media, websites, blogs, opinions, ratings, etc. has increased rapidly. People express their feedback and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Tanvi Mehta , Ganesh Deshmukh

Sentiment analysis is the process of identifying and categorizing people's emotions or opinions regarding various topics. The analysis of Twitter sentiment has become an increasingly popular topic in recent years. In this paper, we present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Mohammad Dehghani , Zahra Yazdanparast

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

Sentiment Analysis of microblog feeds has attracted considerable interest in recent times. Most of the current work focuses on tweet sentiment classification. But not much work has been done to explore how reliable the opinions of the mass…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer , Ronghuo Zheng , Yuezhang Li , Katia Sycara

In this paper , we tackle Sentiment Analysis conditioned on a Topic in Twitter data using Deep Learning . We propose a 2-tier approach : In the first phase we create our own Word Embeddings and see that they do perform better than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Sharath T. S. , Shubhangi Tandon

Solicited public opinion surveys reach a limited subpopulation of willing participants and are expensive to conduct, leading to poor time resolution and a restricted pool of expert-chosen survey topics. In this study, we demonstrate that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-08-09 Emily M. Cody , Andrew J. Reagan , Peter Sheridan Dodds , Christopher M. Danforth

Political discourse on Twitter is a moving target: politicians continuously make statements about their positions. It is therefore crucial to track their discourse on social media to understand their ideological positions and goals.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Maximilian Maurer , Tanise Ceron , Sebastian Padó , Gabriella Lapesa

The study of Twitter as a means for analyzing social phenomena has gained interest in recent years due to the availability of large amounts of data in a relatively spontaneous environment. Within opinion-mining tasks, emotion detection is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Juan Jose Iguaran Fernandez , Juan Manuel Perez , German Rosati

Sentiment analysis is the Natural Language Processing (NLP) task dealing with the detection and classification of sentiments in texts. While some tasks deal with identifying the presence of sentiment in the text (Subjectivity analysis),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Souvick Ghosh , Satanu Ghosh , Dipankar Das

Predicting stock market movements is a well-known problem of interest. Now-a-days social media is perfectly representing the public sentiment and opinion about current events. Especially, twitter has attracted a lot of attention from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Venkata Sasank Pagolu , Kamal Nayan Reddy Challa , Ganapati Panda , Babita Majhi

As microblogging services like Twitter are becoming more and more influential in today's globalised world, its facets like sentiment analysis are being extensively studied. We are no longer constrained by our own opinion. Others opinions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Tapan Sahni , Chinmay Chandak , Naveen Reddy Chedeti , Manish Singh

Automatic sentiment analysis play vital role in decision making. Many organizations spend a lot of budget to understand their customer satisfaction by manually going over their feedback/comments or tweets. Automatic sentiment analysis can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Mohammad Aimal , Maheen Bakhtyar , Junaid Baber , Sadia Lakho , Umar Mohammad , Warda Ahmed , Jahanvash Karim