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Social Media Analysis for Monitoring Political Sentiment

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Elections; Microblogging data; Opinion mining; Political debates; Politics; Sentiment analysis; Stance detection; Tracking political sentiment

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NLP:

The acronym for natural language processing is used to indicate a field of artificial intelligence, also known as computational linguistics, concerned with the simulation of linguistic competence by computers that involve the interaction between computers and human natural languages. It addressed several challenges, like natural language understanding and natural language generation, and tasks, like the identification of named entities within a text, the analysis of morpho-syntactic structure of sentences, or the analysis of opinions and sentiment (sentiment analysis) expressed in a message

Sentiment analysis:

Sentiment analysis, which is also known as opinion mining, indicates the use of NLP and text analysis techniques for detecting subjective information in user-generated contents. These techniques have been widely...

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

    Cristina Bosco & Viviana Patti

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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    Giovanni Semeraro

  2. Bari, Italy

    Cataldo Musto Ph.D

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Bosco, C., Patti, V. (2018). Social Media Analysis for Monitoring Political Sentiment. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_110172

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