Posts in 2013
Measuring Cultural Relativity of Emotional Valence and Arousal using Semantic Clustering and Twitter

Eugene Y. Bann and Joanna J. Bryson, Proceedings of Cognitive Science, 2013.

Considers the most common “emotion” keywords on Twitter, and discovers that some concepts, e.g. sleepiness and sadness, are relatively culturally invariant, but others like “surprise” and “stressed” seem to be used quite differently in different global regions. Also, Europeans are the most positive and excited tweeters. Camera-ready from April 2013.

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