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Twitter data from the first 2008 Presidential debate Total number of tweets is 3,238

Data is in ./data folder:

• rawdata.tsv - the whole data set
• test.tsv - a small set for testing purpose
• trainset - the training data
• testset - the test data

The system is buit on Python 2.7

Other packages you need to install before running the system:

• numpy
• scikit learn
• matplotlib
• nltk

1. Download the code from github

2. run the following depending on the usage

   • for cross validation of the training data, run:

   crossvalidation.py data/model.json

   • for analysis, run:

   analysis.py data/model.json

   • for training and predict test data, run:

   main.py data/model.json

Parameters of the model can be changed in ./data/model/json

• d : dimension of the word vector
• cat : number of categories of the classification problem
• alpha : the proportion of supervised (classification) error and unsupervised (reconstruction) error
• lambdaW : regularisation term on word vector reconstruction matrices
• lambdaCat : regularisation term on category
• lambdaL : regularisation term on word embedding
• iter : number of maximum iteration of the minFunc solver =======

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