Transformer-Based Analysis of Sentiment Towards German Political Parties on Twitter During the 2021 Election Year

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Hellwig, Nils Constantin ; Bink, Markus ; Schmidt, Thomas

; Fehle, Jakob ; Wolff, Christian

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Abstract

Twitter has become an important platform for political discussions among both politicians and the public and was extensively used during the 2021 federal election in Germany. Previous research examined the sentiment of the major political actors during that election on Twitter, but it remains unclear how the German public responded to them on Twitter in terms of sentiment. We analyzed a corpus of ...