Experimenting with distant supervision for emotion classification

  • Authors:
  • Matthew Purver;Stuart Battersby

  • Affiliations:
  • Interaction Media and Communication Group;Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We describe a set of experiments using automatically labelled data to train supervised classifiers for multi-class emotion detection in Twitter messages with no manual intervention. By cross-validating between models trained on different labellings for the same six basic emotion classes, and testing on manually labelled data, we conclude that the method is suitable for some emotions (happiness, sadness and anger) but less able to distinguish others; and that different labelling conventions are more suitable for some emotions than others.