Measuring emotion bifurcation points for individuals in social media

Jiandong Zhou, Yanping Zhao, Huaping Zhang, Tianming Wang

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Abstract

Social media has been a new platform for emotion expression of individuals or groups in recent years. Millions of textual messages are constantly being generated. People with different emotion perceptions have different reactions to the same emotional event occurring in real life. However, it is hard to measure individual's emotion perception ability in both real world and social networks. This paper deals with online individual's emotion in view of complex system theory, and explores the emotion expression mechanism behind tweets. An concept of emotion bifurcation point is defined to denote the emotion perception ability and a methodological framework is proposed to measure it. Under the fundamental integration of the recognized Chinese emotion dictionaries (25,651 words included in total after reconciliation), new-born emotion words (458 in total) trained from a Sina-weibo corpus with 17 million tweets and commonly used emoticons (298 in total) as full-scale as possible, an emotion element ontology is constructed. Experimental evaluation on several certificated figures on Sina-weibo are implemented and the obtained results illustrate the reliability and validity of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 49th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2016
EditorsRalph H. Sprague, Tung X. Bui
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1949-1958
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9780769556703
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Mar 2016
Event49th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2016 - Koloa, United States
Duration: 5 Jan 20168 Jan 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Volume2016-March
ISSN (Print)1530-1605

Conference

Conference49th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKoloa
Period5/01/168/01/16

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