Abstract
A notably challenging problem in emotion analysis is recognizing the cause of an emotion. Although there have been a few studies on emotion cause detection, most of them work on news reports or a few of them focus on microblogs using a single-user structure (i.e., all texts in a microblog are written by the same user). In this article, we focus on emotion cause detection for Chinese microblogs using a multiple-user structure (i.e., texts in a microblog are successively written by several users). First, based on the fact that the causes of an emotion of a focused user may be provided by other users in a microblog with the multiple-user structure, we design an emotion cause annotation scheme which can deal with such a complicated case, and then provide an emotion cause corpus using the annotation scheme. Second, based on the analysis of the emotion cause corpus, we formalize two emotion cause detection tasks for microblogs (current-subtweet-based emotion cause detection and original-subtweet-based emotion cause detection). Furthermore, in order to examine the difficulty of the two emotion cause detection tasks and the contributions of texts written by different users in a microblog with the multiple-user structure, we choose two popular classification methods (SVM and LSTM) to do emotion cause detection. Our experiments show that the current-subtweet-based emotion cause detection is much more difficult than the original-subtweet-based emotion cause detection, and texts written by different users are very helpful for both emotion cause detection tasks. This study presents a pilot study of emotion cause detection which deals with Chinese microblogs using a complicated structure.
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