Congratulations to Rian Tavares, undergraduate student in Computer Science at CEFET/RJ. He has an accepted paper in the Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM) 2017. The article’s title is “Classificação de filmes: uma abordagem utilizando o LIWC”. Its main goal is to analyze texts from movies subtitles to classify them into two categories: bad or excellent. The full article will be online shortly.

Abstract

This article aims to present an approach to classify movies based on their subtitles and information extracted from social networks. The methodology developed uses LIWC program, which contains a dictionary of words that allows extracting linguistic, psychological and social characteristics of texts. Preliminary results were very satisfactory, indicating promising directions for this study.