Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
1-2017
Abstract
Social media is arguably the richest source of human generated text input. Opinions, feedbacks and critiques provided by internet users reflect attitudes and sentiments towards certain topics, products, or services. The sheer volume of such information makes it effectively impossible for any group of persons to read through. Thus, social media sentiment analysis has become an important area of work to make sense of the social media talk. However, most existing sentiment analysis techniques focus only on the aggregate level, classifying sentiments broadly into positive, neutral or negative, and lack the capabilities to perform fine-grained sentiment analysis. This paper describes a social media analytics engine that employs a social adaptive fuzzy similarity-based classification method to automatically classify text messages into sentiment categories (positive, negative, neutral and mixed), with the ability to identify their prevailing emotion categories (e.g., satisfaction, happiness, excitement, anger, sadness, and anxiety). It is also embedded within an end-to-end social media analysis system that has the capabilities to collect, filter, classify, and analyze social media text data and display a descriptive and predictive analytics dashboard for a given concept. The proposed method has been developed and is ready to be licensed to users.
Keywords
opinion mining, sentiment analysis, sentiment classification, social adaptive fuzzy similarity, social media, emotion
Discipline
Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing | Social Media
Research Areas
Intelligent Systems and Optimization
Publication
2016 Future Technologies Conference (FTC): San Francisco, CA, December 6-7: Proceedings
First Page
1361
Last Page
1364
ISBN
9781509041718
Identifier
10.1109/FTC.2016.7821783
Publisher
IEEE
City or Country
Piscataway, NJ
Citation
1
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1109/FTC.2016.7821783