Political inclinations of individuals (liberal vs. conservative) largely shape their opinions on
several issues such as abortion, gun control, nuclear power, etc. These opinions are openly …

The polarization of society over controversial social issues has been the subject of study in
social sciences for decades (Isenberg in J Personal Soc Psychol 50 (6): 1141–1151, 1986 …

Polarization in social media networks is a fact in several scenarios such as political debates
and other contexts such as same-sex marriage, abortion and gun control. Understanding …

Ideological leanings of an individual can often be gauged by the sentiment one expresses
about different issues. We propose a simple framework that represents a political ideology …

In this paper we investigate different approaches we developed in order to classify opinion
and discover opinion sources from text, using affect, opinion and attitude lexicon. We apply …

Analysis of opinion dynamics in social networks plays an important role in today's life. For
predicting users' political preference, it is particularly important to be able to analyze the …

An intensely debated topic is whether political polarization on social media is on the rise. We
can investigate this question only if we can quantify polarization, by taking into account how …

Identifying individual's political ideology from their speeches and written texts is important for
analyzing political opinions and user behavior on social media. Traditional opinion mining …

The widespread use of online social networks (OSNs) to disseminate information and
exchange opinions, by the general public, news media, and political actors alike, has …

" What other people think" has always been an important piece of information during various
decision-making processes. Today people frequently make their opinions available via the …