Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In computational linguistics, most sentiment analysis builds binary classification models on customer reviews data to predict whether a review is positive or negative. In this thesis, we go a step further and build interpretable classification models to predict fine-grained emotions associated with text (such as happy, sad, productive and tired). This analysis is enabled by a unique journaling dataset containing short pieces of text and associated emotional status self-reported by writers. To further study what people feel emotional about (emotion triggers), we perform model interpretation. \n \nWe make two main contributions. First, we apply state-of-the-art text mining methodologies to extract emotion triggers from text, during which we discover and solve an issue with the attention mechanism in a popular deep learning model (Dynamic Memory Network). Second, we obtain data-driven evidence of emotion triggers based on a group of 67,000 people, which contributes to a better understanding of emotion triggers from the perspective of public mental health.
Source: UWSpace (University of Waterloo)
Author: Liuyan Chen
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2955735175