Perceptions of presidential candidates' personalities in Twitter

• Published in: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 67; no. 2; p. 249
• Main Authors: Bhattacharya, Sanmitra, Yang, Chao, Srinivasan, Padmini, Boynton, Bob
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.02.2016
• Subjects: Attitudes; Data mining; Digital media; Information retrieval; Machine learning; Media Research; Perceptions; Personality; Personality traits; Politics; Sentiment analysis; Social Media; Social networks; Studies

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...