Correlations Between Sentiment Analysis of Movie Tweets, Film Critics Reviews, and Box Office Earnings

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2014
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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This thesis explores correlations between sentiment analysis ratings from movie tweets, film critics' ratings, and box office earnings. Two sentiment analysis tools, NLTK and Pattern, are used to collect and automatically extract the sentiments behind tweets about five movies released during summer 2013: Despicable Me 2, The Bling Ring, Man of Steel, Monsters University, and World War Z. The average ratings for each movie are compared to the scores for each movie on Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes. Overall, for most of the movies the results from the sentiment analysis ratings and film critics were similar, although in some instances they did vary considerably. Additionally, Pattern corresponded better with the film critics' ratings than NLTK. Furthermore, through graphical and statistical analysis, correlations between these sets of ratings and the box office earnings are studied. The analysis did not result in significant correlations to make concrete conclusive predictions.
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