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Twitter Poster Briefer
Twitter Poster Briefer
Bayesian sentiment
Alexander Davies, Zoubin Ghahramani
mining University
of Twitter
of Cambridge
1.
Sentiment mining of Twitter is useful in a variety
Introduction
of
fields and has been shown to have predictive
value for box office revenues, political poll
outcomes and even the stock market.
2.
We assume that each tweet has a hidden
Model
sentiment
and that the words in a tweet are
4. Benefits
We also place Bayesian priors on the
multinomials, which allow us to specify which
words we believe will be likely in each sentiment,
before weve seen any tweets. This is how we
incorporate the emoticon information.
3.
Geography
To model
different geographic areas, we could train
models separately for different regions, but some
regions have far fewer tweets than others and we
wont get a good estimate of the word distribution
in those areas.
We can incorporate our knowledge about word
distributions from neighbouring regions and put
them into our prior. To do this, we train the models
separately, create priors based on these models
and then retrain the models with the new priors.
5. Results
6.
We have shown that there are
Conclusion
advantages
to full probabilistic models