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TwitterPaul: Extracting and Aggregating Twitter Predictions
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2012
arXiv
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This paper introduces TwitterPaul, a system designed to make use of Social Media data to help to predict game outcomes for the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament. To this end, we extracted over 538K mentions to football games from a large sample of tweets that occurred during the World Cup, and we classified into different types with a precision of up to 88%. The different mentions were aggregated in order to make predictions about the outcomes of the actual games. We attempt to learn which Twitter
arXiv:1211.6496v2
fatcat:tqamoilcifeyvmnri4llpa2ddu