Identifying same wavelength groups from twitter: a sentiment based approach

  • Authors:
  • Rafeeque Pandarachalil;Selvaraju Sendhilkumar

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Information Science and Technology, Anna University, Chennai, India;Dept. of Information Science and Technology, Anna University, Chennai, India

  • Venue:
  • ACIIDS'13 Proceedings of the 5th Asian conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Social scientists have identified several network relationships and dimensions that induce homophily. Sentiments or opinions towards different issues have been observed as a key dimension which characterizes human behavior. Twitter is an online social medium where rapid communication takes place publicly. People usually express their sentiments towards various issues. Different persons from different walks of social life may share same opinion towards various issues. When these persons constitute a group, such groups can be conveniently termed same wavelength groups. We propose a novel framework based on sentiments to identify such same wavelength groups from twitter domain. The analysis of such groups would be of help in unraveling their response patterns and behavioral features.