Two simple and effective ensemble classifiers for Twitter sentiment analysis

Proceedings of Computing Conference 2017

Volumn 2018-January, Issue , 2018, Pages 1386-1393

  Yan, Yeqing ^a   Yang, Hui ^a   Wang, Hui Ming ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble learners; Lack of training data; Twitter sentiment; Twitter sentiment analysis

Indexed keywords

SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; ENSEMBLE ALGORITHMS; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; ENSEMBLE LEARNERS; SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION; TRAINING DATA; TWITTER SENTIMENT;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 85046007143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAI.2017.8252275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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