Sentiment analysis of twitter audiences: Measuring the positive or negative influence of popular twitterers

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2521-2535

  Bae, Younggue ^a   Lee, Hongchul ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

information discovery; knowledge discovery; linguistic analysis

Indexed keywords

GRANGER CAUSALITY; INFORMATION DISCOVERY; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; MICROBLOGGING; NEGATIVE INFLUENCE; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SHORT MESSAGE;

DATA MINING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84870528649     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22768     Document Type: Article

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