What do the average twitterers say: A twitter model for public opinion analysis in the face of major political events

Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 618-623

  Younus, Arjumand ^a   Qureshi, M Atif ^a   Asar, Fiza Fatima ^b   Azam, Muhammad ^c   Saeed, Muhammad ^d   Touheed, Nasir ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UnHuman Productions   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Social features; Subjectivity; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS APPROACH; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; DEVELOPING WORLD; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; NOVEL METHODS; POLITICAL EVENTS; PUBLIC OPINIONS; SOCIAL FEATURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUBJECTIVITY; TWITTER; USER SURVEYS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 80052752113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASONAM.2011.85     Document Type: Conference Paper

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