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A Comparative Study Between Rule-Based and Transformer-Based Election Prediction Approaches: 2020 US Presidential Election as a Use Case

verfasst von : Asif Khan, Huaping Zhang, Nada Boudjellal, Lin Dai, Arshad Ahmad, Jianyun Shang, Philipp Haindl

Erschienen in: Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Social media platforms (SMPs) attracted people from all over the world for they allow them to discuss and share their opinions about any topic including politics. The comprehensive use of these SMPs has radically transformed new-fangled politics. Election campaigns and political discussions are increasingly held on these SMPs. Studying these discussions aids in predicting the outcomes of any political event. In this study, we analyze and predict the 2020 US Presidential Election using Twitter data. Almost 2.5 million tweets are collected and categorized into Location-considered (LC) (USA only), and Location-unconsidered (LUC) (either location not mentioned or out of USA). Two different sentiment analysis (SA) approaches are employed: dictionary-based SA, and transformers-based SA. We investigated if the deployment of deep learning techniques can improve prediction accuracy. Furthermore, we predict a vote-share for each candidate at LC and LUC levels. Afterward, the predicted results are compared with the five polls’ predicted results as well as the real results of the election. The results show that dictionary-based SA outperformed all the five polls’ predicted results including the transformers with MAE 0.85 at LC and LUC levels, and RMSE 0.867 and 0.858 at LC and LUC levels.

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Titel: A Comparative Study Between Rule-Based and Transformer-Based Election Prediction Approaches: 2020 US Presidential Election as a Use Case
verfasst von: Asif Khan
Huaping Zhang
Nada Boudjellal
Lin Dai
Arshad Ahmad
Jianyun Shang
Philipp Haindl
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-14342-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-14343-4

Copyright-Jahr: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14343-4_4

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