Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering
Vol. 37 No. 11 (2022): Proceedings of Faculty of Technical Sciences
POSITIONING TWITTER USERS ON THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM BASED ON THE CONTENTS OF THEIR TWEETS
Abstract
This paper presents an approach to determine the political orientation of Twitter users based on the contents of their public available tweets. The approach is based on machine learning with the use of the Support Vector Machines classifier, BERT language model, and the Selenium library.
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