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Sentiment Analysis in Twitter: Impact of Morphological Characteristics

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This paper presents a series of experiments aimed at the sentiment analysis on texts posted in Twitter. In particular, several morphological characteristics are studied for the representation of texts in order to determine those that provide the best performance when detecting the emotional charge contained in the Tweets.

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Silva, J., Cera, J.M., Vargas, J., Lezama, O.B.P. (2021). Sentiment Analysis in Twitter: Impact of Morphological Characteristics. In: Dong, Y., Herrera-Viedma, E., Matsui, K., Omatsu, S., González Briones, A., Rodríguez González, S. (eds) Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 17th International Conference. DCAI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1237. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53036-5_29

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