On the combination of "off-the-shelf" sentiment analysis methods

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 04-08-April-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 1158-1165

  Gonçalves, Pollyanna ^a   Dalip, Daniel Hasan ^a   Costa, Helen ^b   Gonçalves, Marcos André ^a   Benevenuto, Fabrício ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Sentiment analysis; Social networks

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

COMBINATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTATION ENVIRONMENTS; LABELED DATASETS; NEWS ARTICLES; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PRODUCT REVIEWS; SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION; STATE OF THE ART;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84975797271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2851613.2851820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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