Twitter Sentiment Analysis Using Emoticons And Emoji Ideograms

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Twitter is an online social networking where worldwide users publish their opinions on a variety of topics, discuss current issues, complain, and express positive or negative sentiment for products they use in daily life. Therefore Twitter is rich source of data for opinion mining and sentiment analysis. However, sentiment analysis for Twitter messages (tweets) is regarded as a challenging problem because tweets are short and informal. This paper focuses on this problem by the analysis of symbols called emotion tokens, including emotion symbols (e.g. emoticons and emoji ideograms). According to observation, these emotion tokens are commonly used. They directly express one’s emotion regardless of his language; hence become a useful signal for sentiment analysis on multilingual tweets. Article describes how to automatically perform sentiment analysis, that is able to determine positive, negative and neutral sentiments for a tested topics.
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308413240_TWITTER_SENTIMENT_ANALYSIS_USING_EMOTICONS_AND_EMOJI_IDEOGRAMS
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