Exploiting emoticons in sentiment analysis

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 703-710

  Hogenboom, Alexander ^a   Bal, Daniella ^a   Frasincar, Flavius ^a   Bal, Malissa ^a   De Jong, Franciska ^a,b   Kaymak, Uzay ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emoticons; Sentiment analysis; Sentiment lexicon

Indexed keywords

EMOTICONS; IMPROVE-A; LEXICON-BASED; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION; SENTIMENT LEXICONS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84878001835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2480362.2480498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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