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| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2012 8th Latin American Web Congress, LA-WEB 2012 |
| Pages | 40-47 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2012 |
| Event | 2012 8th Latin American Web Congress - Cartagena de Indias, Colombia Duration: 24 Oct 2012 → 26 Oct 2012 Conference number: 8 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings - 2012 8th Latin American Web Congress, LA-WEB 2012 |
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Abstract
Social media services have become increasingly popular and their penetration is worldwide. Micro-blogging services, such as Twitter, allow users to express themselves, share their emotions and discuss their daily life affairs in real-time, covering a variety of different points of view and opinions, including political and event-related topics such as immigration, economic issues, tax policy or election campaigns. On the other hand, traditional methods tracking public opinion still heavily rely upon opinion polls, which are usually limited to small sample sizes and can incur in significant costs in terms of time and money. In this paper, we leverage state-of-the-art techniques of sentiment analysis for real-time political emotion tracking. In particular, we analyze mentions of personal names of 18 presidents in Latin America, and measure each political figure's effect in the emotions reflected on the social web.
Keywords
- Computational Social Science, Sentiment Analysis, Social Media Analytics, Twitter
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Networks and Communications
Sustainable Development Goals
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Proceedings - 2012 8th Latin American Web Congress, LA-WEB 2012. 2012. p. 40-47 6392137 (Proceedings - 2012 8th Latin American Web Congress, LA-WEB 2012).
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T1 - Taking the Pulse of Political Emotions in Latin America Based on Social Web Streams
AU - Diaz-Aviles, Ernesto
AU - Orellana-Rodriguez, Claudia
AU - Nejdl, Wolfgang
N1 - Conference code: 8
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - Social media services have become increasingly popular and their penetration is worldwide. Micro-blogging services, such as Twitter, allow users to express themselves, share their emotions and discuss their daily life affairs in real-time, covering a variety of different points of view and opinions, including political and event-related topics such as immigration, economic issues, tax policy or election campaigns. On the other hand, traditional methods tracking public opinion still heavily rely upon opinion polls, which are usually limited to small sample sizes and can incur in significant costs in terms of time and money. In this paper, we leverage state-of-the-art techniques of sentiment analysis for real-time political emotion tracking. In particular, we analyze mentions of personal names of 18 presidents in Latin America, and measure each political figure's effect in the emotions reflected on the social web.
AB - Social media services have become increasingly popular and their penetration is worldwide. Micro-blogging services, such as Twitter, allow users to express themselves, share their emotions and discuss their daily life affairs in real-time, covering a variety of different points of view and opinions, including political and event-related topics such as immigration, economic issues, tax policy or election campaigns. On the other hand, traditional methods tracking public opinion still heavily rely upon opinion polls, which are usually limited to small sample sizes and can incur in significant costs in terms of time and money. In this paper, we leverage state-of-the-art techniques of sentiment analysis for real-time political emotion tracking. In particular, we analyze mentions of personal names of 18 presidents in Latin America, and measure each political figure's effect in the emotions reflected on the social web.
KW - Computational Social Science
KW - Sentiment Analysis
KW - Social Media Analytics
KW - Twitter
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U2 - 10.1109/LA-WEB.2012.9
DO - 10.1109/LA-WEB.2012.9
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