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Sentiment analysis has evolved over past few decades, most of the work in it revolved around textual sentiment analysis with text mining techniques. But audio sentiment analysis is still in a nascent stage in the research community. In this…

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Estimating the political leanings of social media users is a challenging and ever more pressing problem given the increase in social media consumption. We introduce Retweet-BERT, a simple and scalable model to estimate the political…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Julie Jiang , Xiang Ren , Emilio Ferrara

In the last decade, social networks became most popular medium for communication and interaction. As an example, micro-blogging service Twitter has more than 200 million registered users who exchange more than 65 million posts per day.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Qadri Mishael , Aladdin Ayesh

Social media is often used by researchers as an approach to obtaining real-time data on people's activities and thoughts. Twitter, as one of the most popular social networking services nowadays, provides copious information streams on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Xiaodong Wu , Lyn Bartram , Chris Shaw

The increasing growth of social media provides us with an instant opportunity to be informed of the opinions of a large number of politically active individuals in real-time. We can get an overall idea of the ideologies of these individuals…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Sultan Ahmed , Salman Rakin , Khadija Urmi , Chandan Kumar Nag , Md. Mostofa Akbar

Search systems in online social media sites are frequently used to find information about ongoing events and people. For topics with multiple competing perspectives, such as political events or political candidates, bias in the top ranked…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Juhi Kulshrestha , Motahhare Eslami , Johnnatan Messias , Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Saptarshi Ghosh , Krishna P. Gummadi , Karrie Karahalios

Recent advances in NLP have improved our ability to understand the nuanced worldviews of online communities. Existing research focused on probing ideological stances treats liberals and conservatives as separate groups. However, this fails…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Zihao He , Ashwin Rao , Siyi Guo , Negar Mokhberian , Kristina Lerman

There is a vast amount of data generated every second due to the rapidly growing technology in the current world. This area of research attempts to determine the feelings or opinions of people on social media posts. The dataset we used was…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Keshav Kapur , Rajitha Harikrishnan

Nowadays social media platforms such as Twitter provide a great opportunity to understand public opinion of climate change compared to traditional survey methods. In this paper, we constructed a massive climate change Twitter dataset and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Zhongkai Shangguan , Zihe Zheng , Lei Lin

While previous sentiment analysis research has concentrated on the interpretation of explicitly stated opinions and attitudes, this work initiates the computational study of a type of opinion implicature (i.e., opinion-oriented inference)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Janyce Wiebe , Lingjia Deng

Twitter is one of the top influenced social media which has a million number of active users. It is commonly used for microblogging that allows users to share messages, ideas, thoughts and many more. Thus, millions interaction such as short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Dian Indriani , Arbi Haza Nasution , Winda Monika , Salhazan Nasution

This paper describes our deep learning-based approach to sentiment analysis in Twitter as part of SemEval-2016 Task 4. We use a convolutional neural network to determine sentiment and participate in all subtasks, i.e. two-point,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Sebastian Ruder , Parsa Ghaffari , John G. Breslin

Predicting X from Twitter is a popular fad within the Twitter research subculture. It seems both appealing and relatively easy. Among such kind of studies, electoral prediction is maybe the most attractive, and at this moment there is a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Daniel Gayo-Avello

During the 2016 US elections Twitter experienced unprecedented levels of propaganda and fake news through the collaboration of bots and hired persons, the ramifications of which are still being debated. This work proposes an approach to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Erdem Beğenilmiş , Suzan Üsküdarlı

The ability to obtain accurate food security metrics in developing areas where relevant data can be sparse is critically important for policy makers tasked with implementing food aid programs. As a result, a great deal of work has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Jared Dunnmon , Swetava Ganguli , Darren Hau , Brooke Husic

Sentiment analysis is crucial for the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). Sentiment understanding can help AI to replicate human language and discourse. Studying the formation and response of sentiment state from well-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Yanan Jia , Sony SungChu

Opinion dynamics - the research field dealing with how people's opinions form and evolve in a social context - traditionally uses agent-based models to validate the implications of sociological theories. These models encode the causal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Corrado Monti , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Francesco Bonchi

Modelling and forecasting real-life human behaviour using online social media is an active endeavour of interest in politics, government, academia, and industry. Since its creation in 2006, Twitter has been proposed as a potential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Alejandro Vigna-Gómez , Javier Murillo , Manelik Ramirez , Alberto Borbolla , Ian Márquez , Prasun K. Ray

The increasing popularity of the social networking service, Twitter, has made it more involved in day-to-day communications, strengthening social relationships and information dissemination. Conversations on Twitter are now being explored…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Oluwaseun Ajao , Jun Hong , Weiru Liu

Domain adaptation is important in sentiment analysis as sentiment-indicating words vary between domains. Recently, multi-domain adaptation has become more pervasive, but existing approaches train on all available source domains including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Sebastian Ruder , Parsa Ghaffari , John G. Breslin