Abstract
The analysis of a corpus of micro-blogs on the topic of the 2011 UK referendum about the Alternative Vote has been undertaken as a joint activity by text miners and social scientists. To facilitate the collaboration, the corpus and its analysis is managed in a Web-accessible framework that allows users to upload their own textual data for analysis and to manage their own text annotation resources used for analysis. The framework also allows annotations to be searched, and the analysis to be re-run after amending the analysis resources. The corpus is also doubly human-annotated stating both whether each tweet is overall positive or negative in sentiment and whether it is for or against the proposition of the referendum.- Anthology ID:
- L12-1629
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2012
- Address:
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2083–2088
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/1056_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- William Black, Rob Procter, Steven Gray, and Sophia Ananiadou. 2012. A data and analysis resource for an experiment in text mining a collection of micro-blogs on a political topic.. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2083–2088, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- A data and analysis resource for an experiment in text mining a collection of micro-blogs on a political topic. (Black et al., LREC 2012)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/1056_Paper.pdf