The megaphone of the people? Spanish SentiStrength for real-time analysis of political tweets

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 799-813

  Vilares, David ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^b   Alonso, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Political analysis; sentiment analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

DETECTION ACCURACY; DETECTION SYSTEM; LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA; POLITICAL ANALYSIS; POLITICAL DECISION; POLITICAL EVENTS; REAL TIME ANALYSIS; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84948414981     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551515598926     Document Type: Article

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