An overview of sentiment analysis in social media and its applications in disaster relief

G Beigi, X Hu, R Maciejewski, H Liu - Sentiment analysis and ontology …, 2016 - Springer
Sentiment analysis refers to the class of computational and natural language processing
based techniques used to identify, extract or characterize subjective information, such as …

Learning from the ubiquitous language: an empirical analysis of emoji usage of smartphone users

X Lu, W Ai, X Liu, Q Li, N Wang, G Huang… - Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Emojis have been widely used to simplify emotional expression and enrich user experience.
As an interesting practice of ubiquitous computing, emojis are adopted by Internet users …

A topic-enhanced word embedding for Twitter sentiment classification

Y Ren, R Wang, D Ji - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Word representation is crucial to lexical features used in Twitter sentiment analysis models.
Recent work has demonstrated that dense, low-dimensional and real-valued word …

Mining opinion summarizations using convolutional neural networks in Chinese microblogging systems

Q Li, Z Jin, C Wang, DD Zeng - Knowledge-based systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Chinese microblogging is an increasingly popular social media platform. Accurately
summarizing representative opinions from microblogs can increase understanding of the …

Are emoticons good enough to train emotion classifiers of arabic tweets?

WA Hussien, YM Tashtoush… - 2016 7th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, the automatic detection of emotions is employed by many applications across
different fields like security informatics, e-learning, humor detection, targeted advertising, etc …

Expressive signals in social media languages to improve polarity detection

E Fersini, E Messina, FA Pozzi - Information Processing & Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Social media represents an emerging challenging sector where the natural language
expressions of people can be easily reported through blogs and short text messages. This is …

Visual Twitter Analytics (Vista) Temporally changing sentiment and the discovery of emergent themes within sport event tweets

O Hoeber, L Hoeber, M El Meseery, K Odoh… - Online Information …, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose–Due to the size and velocity at which user generated content is created on social
media services such as Twitter, analysts are often limited by the need to pre-determine the …

Can online emotions predict the stock market in China?

Z Zhou, J Zhao, K Xu - Web Information Systems Engineering–WISE 2016 …, 2016 - Springer
Whether the online social media, like Twitter or its variant Weibo, can be a convincing proxy
to predict the stock market has been debated for years, especially for China. However, as …

Social sentiment sensor: a visualization system for topic detection and topic sentiment analysis on microblog

Y Zhao, B Qin, T Liu, D Tang - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2016 - Springer
As a new form of social media, microblogging provides platform sharing, wherein users can
share their feelings and ideas on certain topics. Bursty topics from microblogs are the results …

Exploring entrainment patterns of human emotion in social media

S He, X Zheng, D Zeng, C Luo, Z Zhang - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Emotion entrainment, which is generally defined as the synchronous convergence of human
emotions, performs many important social functions. However, what the specific …