Perceptions of presidential candidates' personalities in twitter

• Published in: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Vol. 67; no. 2; pp. 249 - 267
• Main Authors: Bhattacharya, Sanmitra, Yang, Chao, Srinivasan, Padmini, Boynton, Bob
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2016
• Subjects: Data mining; Digital media; information retrieval; Lists; Perception; Personality; Searching; Social networks; text mining; Tracking; web mining

Political sentiment analysis using social media, especially Twitter, has attracted wide interest in recent years. In such research, opinions about politicians are typically divided into positive, negative, or neutral. In our research, the goal is to mine political opinion from social media at a high...