UA-ZBSA: a headline emotion classification through web information

  • Authors:
  • Zornitsa Kozareva;Borja Navarro;Sonia Vázquez;Andrés Montoyo

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain;University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain;University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain;University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

  • Venue:
  • SemEval '07 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents a headline emotion classification approach based on frequency and co-occurrence information collected from the World Wide Web. The content words of a headline (nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives) are extracted in order to form different bag of word pairs with the joy, disgust, fear, anger, sadness and surprise emotions. For each pair, we compute the Mutual Information Score which is obtained from the web occurrences of an emotion and the content words. Our approach is based on the hypothesis that group of words which co-occur together across many documents with a given emotion are highly probable to express the same emotion.