Published research
Sentiment needs context.
I led an early study of social-media sentiment following the killing of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, presented as an ASONAM poster.
My role
I was first author, with Muhammad Usama and Momin Uppal.
Where it stands
IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2022 poster. Sentiment analysis is not the same as a validated extremist-content classifier.
What changed.
A published two-page poster with preliminary analysis and a proposed context-aware research direction.
What I measured
The study collected a case-specific set of tweets and examined polarity and subjectivity. The visual analysis supported preliminary observations about the sample, not automatic judgments about individual people.
What remained a proposal
The poster outlined the context a fuller framework would need: offline events, online channels and the meaning of different content types. Building and validating that framework was beyond the poster's delivered scope.
The stack
- Python
- Twint
- Sentiment analysis
- Data visualization