2021
DOI: 10.1109/access.2021.3111035
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Biden vs Trump: Modeling US General Elections Using BERT Language Model

Abstract: Social media has played a crucial role in shaping the worldview during election campaigns. It has been used as a medium for political campaigns and a tool for organizing protests; some of which have been peaceful, while others have led to riots. Previous research indicates that understanding user behaviour, particularly in terms of sentiments expressed during elections, can indicate the election outcome. Recently, there has been tremendous progress in language modelling with deep learning via long short-term m… Show more

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“…Bag of words and TF-IDF was used to conduct the analysis and Bag of words outperformed TF-IDF. Other authors [19,20] also established that Twitter can be used as an election indicator, which has the ability to predict the favorite candidate of the people which intend to emerge as the winner before the election is conducted. The people gave positive opinions about Donald Trump in almost the whole states which gave a high signal of emerging the winner of the election which he won.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Bag of words and TF-IDF was used to conduct the analysis and Bag of words outperformed TF-IDF. Other authors [19,20] also established that Twitter can be used as an election indicator, which has the ability to predict the favorite candidate of the people which intend to emerge as the winner before the election is conducted. The people gave positive opinions about Donald Trump in almost the whole states which gave a high signal of emerging the winner of the election which he won.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finally, a vision of future research on integrating advances in process definitions, modelling, and evaluation is also discussed, pointing out, among others, the need for better investigating the application of state-of-the-art machine learning approaches. Chandra et al [2] mentioned that social media plays a crucial role in shaping the worldview during election campaigns. Social media has been used as a medium for political campaigns and a tool for organizing protests; some of which have been peaceful, while others have led to riots.…”
Section: IImentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These are platforms where users can share their feelings which can be processed to generate vital information related to many areas such as healthcare, elections, reviews, and illnesses. Previous research suggests that understanding user behaviour, especially regarding the feelings expressed during elections, can indicate the outcome of elections (Chandra and Saini 2021 ).…”
Section: Dangerous Eventsmentioning
confidence: 99%