@inproceedings{22b90361e1da42f797dabf44e52a58f3,
title = "Figurative Language in Emotion Expressions",
abstract = "This paper examines the use of figurative language in expressing emotions in social media. Based on the analysis of 300 posts from Weibo.com, we argue that there is a close interaction between figurative language and emotion. It is found that 27% of the posts contain figurative devices such as metaphor, simile, rhetorical questions, and irony. Among the five basic emotions, the emotion of anger has the greatest tendency to be expressed via the figurative devices, followed by sadness, fear, surprise, and happiness. In addition, the data shows that rhetorical questions are the most frequently used figurative device for evoking negative emotions, i.e. anger and sadness. We believe that the linguistic account of figurative language in emotion expressions will significantly enhance the effectiveness of the existing automatic emotion classification systems.",
keywords = "Emotion Expression, Figurative Language, Social Media",
author = "Lee, {Yat Mei}",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_37",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319735726",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "408--419",
editor = "Yunfang Wu and Qi Su and Jia-Fei Hong",
booktitle = "Chinese Lexical Semantics - 18th Workshop, CLSW 2017, Revised Selected Papers",
address = "Germany",
note = "18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017 ; Conference date: 18-05-2017 Through 20-05-2017",
}