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Contextual sentiment analysis

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Abstract

This study examines the role of context in evaluating responses to social media posts online. Current sentiment analysis tools evaluate the content of posts without considering the broader context that the post comes from. Utilizing data from an in-person study, we examine differences between perceived sentiment evaluation when social media response posts are viewed in isolation and perceived sentiment evaluation when social media responses are viewed in the context of the original post. We find that evaluations of responses viewed in context change over 50 % of the time. We validate this finding by utilizing simulated data to show the result is not simply a result of data manipulation or noisy data; furthermore, we explore results of this finding with current sentiment analysis tools, examining this result with subsets of our data with high and low kappa values.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling - 9th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2016, Proceedings
EditorsNathaniel Osgood, Kevin S. Xu, David Reitter, Dongwon Lee
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages291-300
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319399300
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event9th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, SBP-BRiMS 2016 - Washington, United States
Duration: Jun 28 2016Jul 1 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9708 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, SBP-BRiMS 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period06/28/1607/1/16

Keywords

  • Affect control theory
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Social media
  • Twitter

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