Sentiment analysis in twitter with lightweight discourse analysis

24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1847-1864

  Mukherjee, Subhabrata ^a   Bhattacharyya, Pushpak ^b  

^a IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Connectives; Discourse; Micro blogs; Sentiment analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVES; DISCOURSE; MICRO-BLOGS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; TWITTER;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SEMANTICS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84876796672     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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