Quantising Opinions for Political Tweets Analysis

作者: Yulan He , Zhongyu Wei , Hassan Saif , Kam-Fai Wong

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摘要: There have been increasing interests in recent years analyzing tweet messages relevant to political events so as understand public opinions towards certain issues. We analyzed crawled during the eight weeks leading UK General Election May 2010 and found that activities at Twitter is not necessarily a good predictor of popularity parties. then proceed propose statistical model for sentiment detection with side information such emoticons hash tags implying polarities being incorporated. Our results show analysis based on simple keyword matching against lexicon or supervised classifier trained distant supervision does correlate well actual election results. However, using our proposed analysis, we were able map opinion offline real world.

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