Alleviating data sparsity for twitter sentiment analysis

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 838, Issue , 2012, Pages 2-9

  Saif, Hassan ^a   He, Yulan ^a   Alani, Harith ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data sparsity; Microblogs; Opinion mining; Semantic smoothing; Sentiment analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DATA SPARSITY; MICROBLOGS; OPINION MINING; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; TWITTER;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84889855944     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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