A bilingual approach for conducting Chinese and English social media sentiment analysis

Computer Networks

Volumn 75, Issue PB, 2014, Pages 491-503

  Yan, Gongjun ^a   He, Wu ^b   Shen, Jiancheng ^b   Tang, Chuanyi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual approach; Objective opinion; Sentiment analysis; Social media; Social network; Text mining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA MINING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BILINGUAL APPROACH; OBJECTIVE OPINION; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEXT MINING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84914675717     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2014.08.021     Document Type: Article

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