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2016
Conference Paper
Titel
Twitter sentiment analysis for german football matches
Abstract
Football is the most famous sport in Germany. Therefore, football matces itself and incidents around the organization of football events are main topics in the media. The stakeholders involved in the organization ("Organizers Group") of football events like clubs, public transportation services, police authorities, private security services and town councils are interested in improving the football events for the "Consuming Group" (supporters, other sprctators in the stadium and TV spectators). To come up with improvements understanding the neesds and emotions of the spectator group is essential. This research paper concentrates on methods for a Sentiment Analysis of tweets in German language posted on Twitter before, during and after football matches to find out the needs and emotions of the "Consuming Group". The paper describes and evaluates methodologies for the creation of a database for football tweets, the creation of a German Football Event Vocabulary and a Sentiment Analysis of Football Matches using the database and the vocabulary.