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Identifying the Overlap between Election Result and Candidates' Ranking based on Hashtag-Enhanced, Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis
2017 11TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING (ICSC), pp 93-96
01 Jan 2017
Abstract
The popularity and availability of Twitter as a service and a data source have fueled the interest in sentiment analysis. Previous research has shed light on the challenges that contextualizing effects and linguistic complexities pose for the accurate sentiment classification of tweets. We test the effect of adding manually-annotated, corpus-based hashtags to a sentiment lexicon; finding that this step in combination with negation detection increases prediction accuracy by about 7%. We then use our enhanced model to identify and rank the candidates of the Republican and Democratic Party of the 2016 New York primary election by the decreasing ratio of tweets that mentioned these individuals and had positive valence, and compare our results to the election outcome.
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- Title
- Identifying the Overlap between Election Result and Candidates' Ranking based on Hashtag-Enhanced, Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis
- Creators
- Rezvaneh Rezapour - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignLufan Wang - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignOmid Abdar - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignJana Diesner - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Publication Details
- 2017 11TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING (ICSC), pp 93-96
- Series
- IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Number of pages
- 4
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science (Informatics)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000403391300018
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85018308742
- Other Identifier
- 991021861622504721
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- Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence