Title
Identifying the Overlap between Election Result and Candidates’ Ranking Based on Hashtag-Enhanced, Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis
Abstract
The popularity and availability of Twitter as a service and a data source have fueled the interest in sentiment analysis. Previous research has shed light on the challenges that contextualizing effects and linguistic complexities pose for the accurate sentiment classification of tweets. We test the effect of adding manually-annotated, corpus-based hashtags to a sentiment lexicon, finding that this step in combination with negation detection increases prediction accuracy by about 7%. We then use our enhanced model to identify and rank the candidates of the Republican and Democratic Party of the 2016 New York primary election by the decreasing ratio of tweets that mentioned these individuals and had positive valence, and compare our results to the election outcome.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ICSC.2017.92
2017 IEEE 11th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Natural Language Processing,Sentiment Analysis,Opinion Mining,Lexicon Based Approach,Twitter
Data source,World Wide Web,Primary election,Ranking,Negation,Sentiment analysis,Computer science,Popularity,Lexicon,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2325-6516
978-1-5090-4285-2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rezvaneh Rezapour175.19
Lufan Wang210.35
Omid Abdar340.73
Jana Diesner421624.38