Emotional reactions to real-world events in social networks

A convergence of emotions among people in social networks is potentially resulted by the occurrence of an unprecedented event in real world. E.g., a majority of bloggers would react angrily at the September 11 terrorist attacks. Based on this observation, we introduce a sentiment index, computed fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nguyen, Thin, Phung, Dinh, Adams, Brett, Venkatesh, Svetha
Other Authors: Cao, L.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Springer-Verlag 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10396