A hybrid mood classification approach for blog text

Yuchul Jung, Hogun Park, Sung Hyon Myaeng

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Abstract

As an effort to detect the mood of a blog, regardless of the length and writing style, we propose a hybrid approach to detecting blog text's mood, which incorporates commonsense knowledge obtained from the general public (ConceptNet) and the Affective Norms English Words (ANEW) list. Our approach picks up blog text's unique features and compute simple statistics such as term frequency, n-gram, and point-wise mutual information (PMI) for the SVM classification method. In addition, to catch mood transitions in a given blog text, we developed a paragraph-level segmentation based on a mood flow analysis using a revised version of the GuessMood operation of ConceptNet and an ANEW-based affective sensing module. For evaluation, a mood corpus comprised of real blog texts has been built semi-automatically. Our experiments using the corpus show meaningful results for 4 mood types: happy, sad, angry, and fear.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPRICAI 2006
Subtitle of host publicationTrends in Artificial Intelligence - 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1099-1103
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)3540366679, 9783540366676
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Guilin, China
Duration: 7 Aug 200611 Aug 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4099 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuilin
Period7/08/0611/08/06

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