POPmine: Tracking Political Opinion on the Web

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

Saleiro, P (Author) Other; Amir, S (Author) Other; Silva, M (Author) Other; Carlos Soares (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM 2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS - DEPENDABLE, AUTONOMIC AND SECURE COMPUTING - PERVASIVE INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING

Pages: 1522-1527

IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information

Liverpool, UNITED KINGDOM, OCT 26-28, 2015

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Physical sciences > Computer science > Cybernetics > Artificial intelligence

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00K-AKV

DOI: 10.1109/cit/iucc/dasc/picom.2015.228

Abstract (EN): The automatic content analysis of mass media in the social sciences has become necessary and possible with the raise of social media and computational power. One particularly promising avenue of research concerns the use of opinion mining. We design and implement the POPmine system which is able to collect texts from web-based conventional media (news items in mainstream media sites) and social media (blogs and Twitter) and to process those texts, recognizing topics and political actors, analyzing relevant linguistic units, and generating indicators of both frequency of mention and polarity (positivity/negativity) of mentions to political actors across sources, types of sources, and across time.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6