Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic

João Tiago Aparício; João Salema de Sequeira; Carlos J. Costa

doi:10.23919/CISTI52073.2021.9476557

Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic

João Tiago Aparício^*, João Salema de Sequeira^*, Carlos J. Costa^*

^*Autor correspondente para este trabalho

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In this paper, we explore the use of emotions in the Portuguese political parties' (with a seat in the Portuguese Parliament) communication as expressed by their official Twitter accounts, as of March 2020. The chosen period of our investigation is particularly interesting because political parties had a chance to communicate their views during a pandemic situation and over a period of one year. These views include possible solutions to face the crisis and their comments on the development of the whole situation. Using a standard lexicon we classified the amount of particular emotions in different tweets. Using this method we plotted the average positivity and negativity along time per party. We also analyzed the impact of each emotion to classify positivity using the present corpus. Finally, we considered some important words regarding the pandemic and their average positivity score. The analysis allows us to identify different approaches to participation in social media according to different strategies, more than political ideology.

Idioma original	English
Título da publicação do anfitrião	Proceedings of CISTI 2021 - 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
Editores	Álvaro Rocha, Ramiro Gonçalves, Francisco Garcia Penalvo, José Martins
Editora	IEEE Computer Society
Número de páginas	6
ISBN (eletrónico)	9789895465910
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/CISTI52073.2021.9476557
Estado da publicação	Publicado - 23 jun. 2021
Evento	16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2021 - Chaves Duração: 23 jun. 2021 → 26 jun. 2021

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Nome	Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI
ISSN (impresso)	2166-0727
ISSN (eletrónico)	2166-0735

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Conferência	16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2021
País/Território	Portugal
Cidade	Chaves
Período	23/06/21 → 26/06/21

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Aparício, J. T., Sequeira, J. S. D., & Costa, C. J. (2021). Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic. Em Á. Rocha, R. Gonçalves, F. G. Penalvo, & J. Martins (Eds.), Proceedings of CISTI 2021 - 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.23919/CISTI52073.2021.9476557

Aparício, João Tiago ; Sequeira, João Salema de ; Costa, Carlos J. / Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic. Proceedings of CISTI 2021 - 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies. editor / Álvaro Rocha ; Ramiro Gonçalves ; Francisco Garcia Penalvo ; José Martins. IEEE Computer Society, 2021. (Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI).

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Emotion analysis of Portuguese political parties communication over the covid-19 pandemic. / Aparício, João Tiago; Sequeira, João Salema de; Costa, Carlos J.
Proceedings of CISTI 2021 - 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies. ed. / Álvaro Rocha; Ramiro Gonçalves; Francisco Garcia Penalvo; José Martins. IEEE Computer Society, 2021. (Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI).

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