• DocumentCode
    150021
  • Title

    Polarity detection of sarcastic political tweets

  • Author

    Tayal, Devendra Kr ; Yadav, Suneel ; Gupta, Kunal ; Rajput, Bhawna ; Kumari, Kiran

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indira Gandhi Delhi Tech. Univ. for Women, Delhi, India
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    5-7 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    625
  • Lastpage
    628
  • Abstract
    Sarcasm is an activity of saying or writing in such a way that the textual meaning of what is said is opposite of what is meant. Generally, sarcastic sentences are used to express negative feelings. Thus in political polarity detection, it can be used to know the dissatisfaction of people against a particular party, candidate or government and hence considering this other aspects can determine the poll results. This paper presents two algorithms, one to identify a sarcastic tweet and other to perform polarity detection on political sarcastic tweets. It also includes the current approach we are using to identify the sarcastic political tweets and future aspects. It also emphasizes on using the social networking sites and mainly Twitter as a source for predicting political results.
  • Keywords
    natural language processing; politics; social networking (online); Twitter; people dissatisfaction; political polarity detection; political result prediction; sarcastic political tweet identification; sarcastic political tweets; sarcastic sentences; sarcastic tweet identification; social networking sites; Algorithm design and analysis; Dictionaries; Government; Media; Nominations and elections; Twitter;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computing for Sustainable Global Development (INDIACom), 2014 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    New Delhi
  • Print_ISBN
    978-93-80544-10-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IndiaCom.2014.6828037
  • Filename
    6828037