Using twitter sentiment to forecast the 2013 Pakistani election and the 2014 Indian election

Vadim Kagan, Andrew Stevens, V. S. Subrahmanian

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Abstract

This column discusses the authors' efforts to project the winner of the 2013 Pakistan and the 2014 Indian prime minister election using social network analysis and methods to create a diffusion estimation model.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number6916497
Pages (from-to)2-5
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Intelligent Systems
Volume30
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • campaign
  • diffusion estimation model
  • election forecasting
  • sentiment analysis
  • social media
  • social network analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Artificial Intelligence

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