TY - GEN
T1 - Out of the Closet
T2 - 2019 IEEE Region 10 Conference: Technology, Knowledge, and Society, TENCON 2019
AU - Anand, Tanvi
AU - Ramesh, Krithika
AU - Singh, Sanjay
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - Social media sites such as Twitter have given a platform to people to express their thoughts even on the most sensitive of topics. In this paper, we analyze tweets which are posted by people who acknowledged their sexuality and shared their friends and families' response publicly. In our experiment, we have used a set of Tweets data with specific hashtags to analyze the response. Context-based topic modeling was used to gather tweets surrounding this topic to get the relevant tweets. The unwanted tweets discovered by the topic model was discarded. The sentiment of these tweets was then extracted using novel methods. The motivation for this process was to find out how their declaration of sexuality was perceived. Unfortunately, homophobia is one of the battles humanity continues to fight.
AB - Social media sites such as Twitter have given a platform to people to express their thoughts even on the most sensitive of topics. In this paper, we analyze tweets which are posted by people who acknowledged their sexuality and shared their friends and families' response publicly. In our experiment, we have used a set of Tweets data with specific hashtags to analyze the response. Context-based topic modeling was used to gather tweets surrounding this topic to get the relevant tweets. The unwanted tweets discovered by the topic model was discarded. The sentiment of these tweets was then extracted using novel methods. The motivation for this process was to find out how their declaration of sexuality was perceived. Unfortunately, homophobia is one of the battles humanity continues to fight.
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U2 - 10.1109/TENCON.2019.8929379
DO - 10.1109/TENCON.2019.8929379
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85077693027
T3 - IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON
SP - 733
EP - 738
BT - Proceedings of the TENCON 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 17 October 2019 through 20 October 2019
ER -