Sentiment, emotion, purpose, and style in electoral tweets

作者：

Highlights：

• We automatically compile a dataset of 2012 US presidential election tweets.

• We annotate the tweets for sentiment, emotion, style, and purpose.

• We show that the tweets convey negative emotions twice as often as positive.

• We describe two automatic systems that predict emotion and purpose in tweets.

摘要

•We automatically compile a dataset of 2012 US presidential election tweets.•We annotate the tweets for sentiment, emotion, style, and purpose.•We show that the tweets convey negative emotions twice as often as positive.•We describe two automatic systems that predict emotion and purpose in tweets.

论文关键词：Sentiment analysis,Tweets,Elections,Emotions,Purpose,Crowdsourcing

论文评审过程：Received 15 August 2013, Revised 6 June 2014, Accepted 18 September 2014, Available online 16 October 2014, Version of Record 6 June 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2014.09.003