POPmine: Tracking Political Opinion on the Web

Pedro Saleiro, Silvio Amir, Mario Silva, Carlos Soares
2015 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing  
The automatic content analysis of mass media in the social sciences has become necessary and possible with the raise of social media and computational power. One particularly promising avenue of research concerns the use of opinion mining. We design and implement the POPmine system which is able to collect texts from web-based conventional media (news items in mainstream media sites) and social media (blogs and Twitter) and to process those texts, recognizing topics and political actors,
more » ... ng relevant linguistic units, and generating indicators of both frequency of mention and polarity (positivity/negativity) of mentions to political actors across sources, types of sources, and across time.
doi:10.1109/cit/iucc/dasc/picom.2015.228 dblp:conf/IEEEcit/SaleiroASS15 fatcat:vc3t6qqgnvgbznybq7x6t4hheq