Multilingual Sentiment Analysis in Microblogs

Team members

• Wang Ling

Project Summary

Most of the work done on Microblogs (e.g. Twitter) has focused on processing English language messages. However, it has been stated in [1] that only approximately 40% of Twitter messages are posted in English. Ignoring these messages, might have negative effects on the results of the analysis experiment regarding a given topic. For instance, the analysis of customer satisfaction on a product based on only English messages, might be disregarding issues such as support for non-native customers.