An analysis of online twitter sentiment surrounding the european refugee crisis

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Abstract

Using existing natural language and sentiment analysis techniques, this study explores different dimensions of mood states of tweet content relating to the refugee crisis in Europe. The study has two main goals. The first goal is to compare the mood states of negative emotion, positive emotion, anger and anxiety across two populations (English and German speaking). The second goal is to discover if a link exists between significant real-world events relating to the refugee crisis and online sentiment on Twitter. Gaining an insight into this comparison and relationship can help us firstly, to better understand how these events shape public attitudes towards refugees and secondly, how online expressions of emotion are affected by significant events. Copyrightc 2016 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKDIR 2016 - 8th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
EditorsAna Fred, Jan Dietz, David Aveiro, Kecheng Liu, Jorge Bernardino, Joaquim Filipe, Joaquim Filipe
PublisherSCITEPRESS
Pages299-306
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9789897582035
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2016 - Porto, Portugal
Duration: 9 Nov 201611 Nov 2016

Publication series

NameIC3K 2016 - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
Volume1

Conference

Conference8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2016
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPorto
Period9/11/1611/11/16

Keywords

  • Refugee Crisis
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Social Media Analysis

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