Toward Social Media Opinion Mining for Sustainability Research

We propose to introduce social media opinion mining research into the field of computational sustainability. Opinion mining from social media can be a faster and less expensive alternative to traditional survey and polling, on which many sustainability research are based. We describe a framework for such analysis, examine the challenges in our proposed framework and current status of research on those challenges. We also propose some possible research directions for tackling these challenges. © Copyright 2015, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.