Sistemas de Informação (Jun 2019)

Classifying Portuguese Messages With Traces of Racism on Twitter

  • SILVA, R. C. C.,
  • FERNANDES, D. S. A.,
  • FERNANDES, M. G. C.

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 23
pp. 2 – 9

Abstract

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The development of social media and the Internet has given users a platform to express their beliefs and opinions with greater ease and outreach. Some of these opinions may be pejorative and discriminatory towards other users based only on characteristics such as the color of their skin. This article describe a process for the detection of traces of racism in Portuguese language messages on Twitter. It discusses racism in ethical and legal terms for conceptual definition, addresses Sentiment Analysis, its possible approaches and levels of analysis. It characterizes collected data regarding frequency and location. Finally, we discuss the facts perceived during the data collection and classification process.

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