Sentiment, emotion, purpose, and style in electoral tweets

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 480-499

  Mohammad, Saif M ^a   Zhu, Xiaodan ^a   Kiritchenko, Svetlana ^a   Martin, Joel ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Elections; Emotions; Purpose; Sentiment analysis; Tweets

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

CROWDSOURCING; ELECTIONS; EMOTIONS; PURPOSE; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; TWEETS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84938074973     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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