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Brexit in Italy - Text Mining of Social Media
Francesca Greco, Livia Celardo, Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo

Last modified: 2018-06-07

Abstract


The aim of the research is to identify how Brexit is discussed about on Twitter through a text mining approach. We collected all the tweets containing the term “Brexit†for 20 days, resulting in a large corpus of hundred thousand tokens to which we applied multivariate techniques in order to identify the contents and the sentiments behind the shared comments.

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