Analyzing Political Trends in the Blogosphere

Verfasst von

Gianluca Demartini, Stefan Siersdorfer, Sergiu Chelaru, Wolfgang Nejdl

Abstract

In the last years, the blogosphere has become a vital part of the web, covering a variety of different points of view and opinions on political and event-related topics such as immigration, election campaigns, or economic developments. Tracking the public opinion is usually done by conducting surveys resulting in significant costs both for interviewers and persons consulted. In this paper, we propose a method for extracting political trends in the blogosphere. To this end, we apply sentiment and time series analysis techniques in combination with aggregation methods on blog data to estimate the temporal development of opinions on politicians.

Details

Organisationseinheit(en): Forschungszentrum L3S
Externe Organisation(en): Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech)
Typ: Aufsatz in Konferenzband
Seiten: 466-469
Anzahl der Seiten: 4
Publikationsdatum: 17.07.2011
Publikationsstatus: Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed: Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: Software, Computernetzwerke und -kommunikation
Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung: SDG 10 - Weniger Ungleichheiten
Elektronische Version(en): https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v5i1.14178 (Zugang: Offen )