RETUYT in TASS 2017: Sentiment Analysis for Spanish Tweets using SVM and CNN

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This article presents classifiers based on SVM and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for the TASS 2017 challenge on tweets sentiment analysis. The classifier with the best performance in general uses a combination of SVM and CNN. The use of word embeddings was particularly useful for improving the classifiers performance.

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