CYBEREMOTIONS – Collective Emotions in Cyberspace

Junghyun Ahn, Anna Borowiec, Kevan Buckley, Di Cai, Anna Chmiel, Agnieszka Czaplicka, Grzegorz Dąbrowski, Antonios Garas, David Garcia, Stéphane Gobron, Robert Hillmann, Janusz Hołyst (+16 others)
2011 Procedia Computer Science  
Emotions are an important part of most societal dynamics. As with face to face meetings, Internet exchanges may not only include factual information but may also elicit emotional responses; how participants feel about the subject discussed or other group members. The development of automatic sentiment analysis has made large scale emotion detection and analysis possible using text messages collected from the web. We present results of two years of studies performed in the EU Large Scale
more » ... ing Project CYBEREMOTIONS (Collective emotions in cyberspace) Our goal is to understand the role of collective emotions in creating, forming and breaking-up ICT mediated communities and to prepare the background for the next generation of emotionally-intelligent ICT services. Project results have already attracted a lot of attention from various mass media and research journals including the Science and New Scientist magazines. Nine Project teams are organised in three layers (data, theory and ICT output). In the data collection layer large-scale corpora have been collected and analysed from a diverse set of online social communication networks and state-of-the-art sentiment detection algorithms developed. An analysis of top Twitter events in a month showed that even positive popular events normally generate increases in negative sentiment strength. 1877-0509 © Selection and peer review under responsibility of FET11 conference organizers and published by Elsevier B.V. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. © Selection and peer review under responsibility of FET11 conference organizers and published by Elsevier B.V. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license.
doi:10.1016/j.procs.2011.09.076 fatcat:sh77kyu22fec5c6zhofjt4r6e4