... the text in articles, books, or even spoken language. It includes many idiosyncratic uses, such as emoticons, URLs, RT for re-tweet, @ for user mentions, # for hashtags, and repetitions. It ... and tweet volume within each time period for each candidate. For volume, the system outputs the number of tweets every minute for each candidate. For sentiment, the system outputs the number ... that the opinions expressed would be highly subjective and contextualized. Therefore, for generating data for model training and testing, we used a crowd-sourcing approach to do sentiment...