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Sentiment analysis of controversial topics on Pakistan's Twitter user-base

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Sarim Zafar,

Usman Sarwar,

Zafar Gilani,

Junaid QadirAuthors Info & Claims

ACM DEV '16: Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development

Article No.: 35, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/3001913.3006644

Published: 18 November 2016 Publication History

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Twitter has largely become a central online social network for arguments on various global controversial topics. Detecting and analysing such topics could prove to be beneficial in understanding the sentiments of trending topics in developing regions. In this paper, we perform a systematic sentiment study of trending controversial topics on Pakistan's Twitter user-base. From the data collected we build retweet graphs, partition graphs into communities, measure community influence, and label the communities as 'for' or 'against' per topic. To the best of our knowledge this is the first work to categorise and study sentiments attached to controversial topics in a developing region.

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ACM DEV '16: Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development

November 2016

265 pages

ISBN:9781450346498

DOI:10.1145/3001913

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