Exploiting emoticons in polarity classification of text

Journal of Web Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 022-040

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

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emoticons; Polarity classification; Sentiment analysis; Sentiment lexicon

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EMOTICONS; LEXICON-BASED; POLARITY CLASSIFICATION; SENTENCE LEVEL; SENTIMENT LEXICONS; WRITTEN TEXTS;

SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84918824693     PISSN: 15409589     EISSN: 15445976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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