While much work has considered the problem of latent attribute inference for users of social
media such as Twitter, little has been done on non-English-based content and users. Here …

This study shows how liking politicians' public Facebook posts can be used as an accurate
measure for predicting present-day voter intention in a multiparty system. We highlight that a …

Can the count of 'likes' recorded on the Facebook page of a party predict whether it will win
the elections or not? To answer this question in the Indian setting in the context of the 2014 …

Compared with real-world polling, election prediction based on social media can be far
more timely and cost-effective due to the immediate availability of fast evolving Web …

The paper discusses the advantages of using Supervised Aggregated Sentiment Analysis
(SASA) of social media to forecast electoral results and presents an extension of the …

Using social media for political discourse has received much attention due to its real-time
and interactive nature, especially around election time. Recent studies have explored the …

During the last few years a growing amount of content produced by Internet users has
become publicly available online. These data come from a variety of places, including …

Election polls provide valuable insights about voting intention on candidates filtered by
demographic characteristics. This information can be used to understand the dynamics of …

In political sciences there is a long tradition of trying to understand party preferences and
voting behavior to explain political decisions. Traditionally, scholars relied on voting …

Nowadays, as an arena of politics, social media ignites political protests, so analyzing topics
discussed negatively in the social media has increased in importance for detecting a …