Why are they excited?: identifying and explaining spikes in blog mood levels

  • Authors:
  • Krisztian Balog;Gilad Mishne;Maarten de Rijke

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam;University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam;University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

  • Venue:
  • EACL '06 Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Posters & Demonstrations
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We describe a method for discovering irregularities in temporal mood patterns appearing in a large corpus of blog posts, and labeling them with a natural language explanation. Simple techniques based on comparing corpus frequencies, coupled with large quantities of data, are shown to be effective for identifying the events underlying changes in global moods.