Emotion in code-switching texts: Corpus construction and analysis

Sophia Yat Mei Lee, Zhongqing Wang

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Abstract

Previous researches have focused on analyzing emotion through monolingual text, when in fact bilingual or code-switching posts are also common in social media. Despite the important implications of code-switching for emotion analysis, existing automatic emotion extraction methods fail to accommodate for the code-switching content. In this paper, we propose a general framework to construct and analyze the code-switching emotional posts in social media. We first propose an annotation scheme to identify the emotions associated with the languages expressing them in a Chinese-English code-switching corpus. We then make some observations and generate statistics from the corpus to analyze the linguistic phenomena of code-switching texts in social media. Finally, we propose a multiple-classifier-based automatic detection approach to detect emotion in the codeswitching corpus for evaluating the effectiveness of both Chinese and English texts.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 8th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, SIGHAN 2015 - co-located with 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL IJCNLP 2015
EditorsLiang-Chih Yu, Zhifang Sui, Yue Zhang, Vincent Ng
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages91-99
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643570
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2015
Event8th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, SIGHAN 2015 - Beijing, China
Duration: 30 Jul 201531 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 8th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, SIGHAN 2015 - co-located with 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL IJCNLP 2015

Conference

Conference8th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, SIGHAN 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period30/07/1531/07/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Education
  • Linguistics and Language

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