An Approach to Micro-blog Sentiment Intensity Computing Based on Public Opinion Corpus

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Wu Hanxiang 1,* Xin Mingjun 1 Li Weimin 1 Niu Zhihua 1

1. Shanghai University, Shanghai 20072, China

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2012.05.08

Received: 4 Jul. 2012 / Revised: 10 Aug. 2012 / Accepted: 12 Sep. 2012 / Published: 15 Oct. 2012

Index Terms

Micro-blog, Public Opinion Corpus, Sentiment Intensity

Abstract

Based on the analysis of the status of network public opinion, the features of short content and nearly real-time broadcasting velocity in this paper, it constructs a public opinion corpus on the content of micro-blog information, and proposes an approach to marking corpus on the basis of sentiment tendency from the semantic point of view; Furthermore, considering the characteristics of micro-blog, it calculates the sentiment intensity from three levels on words, sentences and documents respectively, which improves the efficiency of the public opinion characteristics analysis and supervision. So as to provide a better technical support for content auditing and public opinion monitoring for micro-blog platform.

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Wu Hanxiang, Xin Mingjun, Li Weimin, Niu Zhihua,"An Approach to Micro-blog Sentiment Intensity Computing Based on Public Opinion Corpus", IJWMT, vol.2, no.5, pp.53-61, 2012. DOI: 10.5815/ijwmt.2012.05.08 

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