Exploiting Community Emotion For Microblog Event Detection

Microblog has become a major platform for information about real-world events. Automatically discovering real-world events from microblog has attracted the attention of many researchers. However, most of existing work ignore the importance of emotion information for event detection. We argue that people's emotional reactions immediately reflect the occurring of real-world events and should be important for event detection. In this study, we focus on the problem of community-related event detection by community emotions. To address the problem, we propose a novel framework which include the following three key components: microblog emotion classification, community emotion aggregation and community emotion burst detection. We evaluate our approach on real microblog data sets. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.This chapter has been published as a conference paper in the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015) [18].