Abstract
For years, opinion polls rely on data collected through telephone or person-to-person surveys. The process is costly, inconvenient, and slow. Recently online search data has emerged as potential proxies for the survey data. However considerable human involvement is still needed for the selection of search indices, a task that requires knowledge of both the target issue and how search terms are used by the online community. The robustness of such manually selected search indices can be questionable. In this paper, we propose an automatic polling system through a novel application of machine learning. In this system, the needs for examining, comparing, and selecting search indices have been eliminated through automatic generation of candidate search indices and intelligent combination of the indices. The results include a publicly accessible web application that provides real-time, robust, and accurate measurements of public opinions on several subjects of general interest.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2014 |
Subtitle of host publication | 15th International Conference Thessaloniki, Greece, October 12-14, 2014 Proceedings, Part II |
Editors | Boualem Benatallah, Azer Bestavros, Yannis Manolopoulos, Athena Vakali, Yanchun Zhang |
Place of Publication | Cham Switzerland |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 266-275 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319117461, 9783319117492 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783319117454, 9783319117485 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering 2014 - Thessaloniki , Greece Duration: 12 Oct 2014 → 14 Oct 2014 Conference number: 15th http://delab.csd.auth.gr/wise2014/ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-11749-2 (Proceedings) |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Publisher | Springer |
Volume | 8786 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering 2014 |
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Abbreviated title | WISE 2014 |
Country/Territory | Greece |
City | Thessaloniki |
Period | 12/10/14 → 14/10/14 |
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Keywords
- Information extraction
- Opinion polls
- Web search