Reader emotion prediction using concept and concept sequence features in news headlines

Yuanlin Yao; Ruifeng Xu; Qin Lu; Bin Liu; Jun Xu; Chengtian Zou; Li Yuan; Shuwei Wang; Lin Yao; Zhenyu He

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-54903-8_7

Reader emotion prediction using concept and concept sequence features in news headlines

Yuanlin Yao, Ruifeng Xu, Qin Lu, Bin Liu, Jun Xu, Chengtian Zou, Li Yuan, Shuwei Wang, Lin Yao, Zhenyu He

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This paper presents a method to predicate news reader emotions. News headlines supply core information of articles, thus they can serve as key information for reader emotion predication. However, headlines are always short which leads to obvious data sparseness if only lexical forms are used. To address this problem, words in their lexical forms in a headline are transferred to their concepts and concept sequence features of words in headlines based on a semantic knowledge base, namely HowNet for Chinese. These features are expected to represent the major elements which can evoke reader's emotional reactions. These transferred concepts are used with lexical features in headlines for predicating the reader's emotion. Evaluations on dataset of Sina Social News with user emotion votes show that the proposed approach which do not use any news content, achieves a comparable performance to Bag-Of-Word model using both the headlines and the news contents, making our method more efficient in reader emotion prediction.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 15th International Conference, CICLing 2014, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	73-84
Number of pages	12
Edition	PART 2
ISBN (Print)	9783642549021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54903-8_7
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Event	15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2014 - Kathmandu, Nepal Duration: 6 Apr 2014 → 12 Apr 2014

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Number	PART 2
Volume	8404 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2014
Country	Nepal
City	Kathmandu
Period	6/04/14 → 12/04/14

Keywords

Concept Feature
Concept Sequence Feature
Emotion Prediction
HowNet

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

More information

10.1007/978-3-642-54903-8_7

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Yao, Y., Xu, R., Lu, Q., Liu, B., Xu, J., Zou, C., Yuan, L., Wang, S., Yao, L., & He, Z. (2014). Reader emotion prediction using concept and concept sequence features in news headlines. In Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 15th International Conference, CICLing 2014, Proceedings (PART 2 ed., pp. 73-84). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8404 LNCS, No. PART 2). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54903-8_7

Yao, Yuanlin ; Xu, Ruifeng ; Lu, Qin ; Liu, Bin ; Xu, Jun ; Zou, Chengtian ; Yuan, Li ; Wang, Shuwei ; Yao, Lin ; He, Zhenyu. / Reader emotion prediction using concept and concept sequence features in news headlines. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 15th International Conference, CICLing 2014, Proceedings. PART 2. ed. Springer Verlag, 2014. pp. 73-84 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); PART 2).

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