Tweet sentiment analysis with classifier ensembles

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 170-179

  Da Silva, Nádia F F ^a   Hruschka, Eduardo R ^a   Hruschka, Estevam R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Classifier ensembles; Sentiment analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; TWITTER;

EID: 84908212753     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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