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Vasileios Lampos - 2013 - A user‐centric model of voting intention from Social Media
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A user‐centric model of voting intention from Social Media
Vasileios Lampos, Daniel Preoţiuc‐Pietro & Trevor Cohn
Computer Science Department, University of Sheffield, UK
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bi‐linear
bias
voting intention % for
political party during
time interval
regularisation
parameter for
word weights
ℓ , ‐norm
: row of
RMSE % Method Austria UK
training set
benchmark
mean poll 1.851 1.69
Last poll 1.47 1.723
Linear 1.442 3.067
, Bilinear 1.699 1.573
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Bilinear
Multi‐task
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filtering out words & users
UK
3 parties
predictions
CON
LAB
LIB
CON
LAB
LIB
polls
SPÖ
ÖVP
FPÖ
GRÜ
Austria
4 parties
predictions
SPÖ
ÖVP
FPÖ
GRÜ
polls
: frequency of word for
user during time interval
parties polls
Bi‐convex iterative learning
1. Solve
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2. Fix and solve
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3. Fix and solve
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4. Validate ? Go to Step 2 : END
prediction
performance