Twitter sentiment detection via ensemble classification using averaged confidence scores

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9022, Issue , 2015, Pages 741-754

  Hagen, Matthias ^a   Potthast, Martin ^a   Büchner, Michel ^a   Stein, Benno ^a  

^a BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; CONFIDENCE SCORE; DIVERSE FEATURES; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFICATION; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; INDIVIDUAL CLASSIFIERS; MISCLASSIFICATIONS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84925424590     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16354-3_81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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