Readings

1. Core Sentiment Analysis (SA)
   • Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis, Bo Pang and Lillian Lee (2008), , Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval: Vol. 2: No. 1–2, pp 1-135.
     • the definive historical survey
   • Bing Liu’s tutorial on Sentiment Analysis
   • Text Mining and Information Extraction
2. Machine learning for SA
   • Machine learning background
     • regularization
   • LDA
     • Probabilistic topic models, David Blei, Communications of the ACM, 55(4),Pages 77-84, 2012 - a good, simple introduction
     • a simple introduction to LDA
   • Deep learning
     • CNNs
     • Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank, Richard Socher, Alex Perelygin, Jean Y. Wu, Jason Chuang, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew Y. Ng and Christopher Potts
3. SA extensions
   • Post and person
     • Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media H. Andrew Schwartz … Lyle H. Ungar, PLOS One, September 25, 2013
   • Emotion from hashtags
     • Using Hashtags to Capture Fine Emotion Categories from Tweets Saif M. Mohammad, Svetlana Kiritchenko January 2014
   • Community sentiment
     • Characterizing geographic variation in well-being using tweets
   • Cross-lingual, cross-cultural
     • Does ‘well-being translate on Twitter’
   • Multimedia
     • Fusing audio, visual and textual clues for sentiment analysis from multimodal content, Soujanya Poriaa, Erik Cambriab, , Newton Howardc, Guang-Bin Huangd, Amir Hussaina Neurocomputing Volume 174, Part A, 22 January 2016, Pages 50–59 - Not opensource :(
     • Analyzing Personality through Social Media Profile Picture Choice Leqi, Liu, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Zahra Riahi, Mohsen E. Moghaddam, and Lyle Ungar. in ICWSM., 2016

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Software

• Open source text mining and NLP tools
• lexhub
• LDA tools
  • MALLET
  • FACTORIE
• NLP tools
  • NLTK
    • being replaced by syntaxnet
  • syntaxnet

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Lexica and corpora

under development

• NRC Emotion Lexicon
• lexhub
• ANEW
• SocialSent
• SENTIWORDNET 3.0: An Enhanced Lexical Resource for Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Stefano Baccianella, Andrea Esuli, and Fabrizio Sebastiani
• Opinionfinder and the Subjectivity lexicon
• SemEval-2016 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter Preslav Nakov, Alan Ritter, Sara Rosenthal, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Veselin Stoyanov