Predicting political mood tendencies based on Twitter data

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Abstract

Online social media has changed the way of interacting among users, nowadays, is used as a tool for expressing polarized opinions related to a global or specific context. Valuable information can be gathered in real-time basis and can help to determine if such data has a social impact on users represented as comfort or discomfort on a political domain. Analyzing data related to political domains like government, elections, security & defense and health insurance are important for measuring social mood and predicting whether there is a positive or negative tendency on selected populations. This paper presents a mood analysis methodology on Twitter data to predict social sentiment on political events. The proposed methodology is done by gathering streams of Twitter's information, then converted into trained data for processing and classification such that we can statistically predict if there is a positive or negative tendency on political events.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 5th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, IWBF 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509057917
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 May 2017
Event5th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, IWBF 2017 - Coventry, United Kingdom
Duration: 4 Apr 20175 Apr 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2017 5th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, IWBF 2017

Conference

Conference5th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, IWBF 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCoventry
Period4/04/175/04/17

Keywords

  • Big Data
  • Data
  • Forecasting
  • Nave Bayes
  • Prediction
  • Regularized Regression
  • Twitter

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