Opinion Mining from YouTube Captions Using ChatGPT: A Case Study of Street Interviews Polling the 2023 Turkish Elections

Understand

Opinion mining plays a critical role in understanding public sentiment and preferences, particularly in the context of political elections.

• Traditional polling methods, while useful, can be expensive and less scalable.
• Social media offers an alternative source of data for opinion mining but presents challenges such as noise, biases, and platform limitations in data collection.
• In this paper, we propose a novel approach for opinion mining, utilizing YouTube's auto-generated captions from public interviews as a data source, specifically focusing on the 2023 Turkish elections as a case study.