GOP primary season on Twitter: "Popular" political sentiment in social media

WSDM 2013 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 517-525

  Mejova, Yelena ^a   Srinivasan, Padmini ^b   Boynton, Bob ^b  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

political discourse; sentiment analysis; social media

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TOOL; MULTISTAGE APPROACH; NEWS MEDIA; POLITICAL CAMPAIGN; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; POOR PERFORMANCE; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874234357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2433396.2433463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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