Login (DCU Staff Only)
Login (DCU Staff Only)

DORAS | DCU Research Repository

Explore open access research and scholarly works from DCU

Advanced Search

An evaluation of the role of sentiment in second screen microblog search tasks

Bermingham, Adam and Smeaton, Alan F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1028-8389 (2012) An evaluation of the role of sentiment in second screen microblog search tasks. In: 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM12), 4 Jun 2012, Dublin, Ireland.

Abstract
The recent prominence of the real-time web is proving both challenging and disruptive for information retrieval and web data mining research. User-generated content on the real-time web is perhaps best epitomised by content on microblogging platforms, such as Twitter. Given the substantial quantity of microblog posts that may be relevant to a user's query at a point in time, automated methods are required to sift through this information. Sentiment analysis offers a promising direction for modelling microblog content. We build and evaluate a sentiment-based filtering system using real-time user studies. We find a significant role played by sentiment in the search scenarios, observing detrimental effects in filtering out certain sentiment types. We make a series of observations regarding associations between document-level sentiment and user feedback, including associations with user profile attributes, and users' prior topic sentiment.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Interactive computer systems
Computer Science > Computational linguistics
Computer Science > Machine learning
Computer Science > Artificial intelligence
Computer Science > Information retrieval
Computer Science > World Wide Web
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Initiatives and Centres > CLARITY: The Centre for Sensor Web Technologies
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:16867
Deposited On:15 Jun 2012 08:47 by Adam Bermingham . Last Modified 31 Oct 2018 13:05
Documents

Full text available as:

[thumbnail of ICWSM_2012_final_camera_ready.pdf]
Preview
PDF - Requires a PDF viewer such as GSview, Xpdf or Adobe Acrobat Reader
61kB
Downloads

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

Archive Staff Only: edit this record