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Contrasting Public Opinion Dynamics and Emotional Response During Crisis

verfasst von : Svitlana Volkova, Ilia Chetviorkin, Dustin Arendt, Benjamin Van Durme

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Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

We propose an approach for contrasting spatiotemporal dynamics of public opinions expressed toward targeted entities, also known as stance detection task, in Russia and Ukraine during crisis. Our analysis relies on a novel corpus constructed from posts on the VKontakte social network, centered on local public opinion of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian crisis, along with newly annotated resources for predicting expressions of fine-grained emotions including joy, sadness, disgust, anger, surprise and fear. Akin to prior work on sentiment analysis we align traditional public opinion polls with aggregated automatic predictions of sentiments for contrastive geo-locations. We report interesting observations on emotional response and stance variations across geo-locations. Some of our findings contradict stereotypical misconceptions imposed by media, for example, we found posts from Ukraine that do not support Euromaidan but support Putin, and posts from Russia that are against Putin but in favor USA. Furthermore, we are the first to demonstrate contrastive stance variations over time across geo-locations using storyline visualization (Storyline visualization is available at http://​www.​cs.​jhu.​edu/​~svitlana/​) technique.

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Fußnoten
1
Anonymized VK corpus is available upon request at http://​www.​cs.​jhu.​edu/​~svitlana/​.
 
2
Pre-trained models for emotion prediction and data annotated with 6 Ekman’s emotions in Russian and Ukrainian can be found at http://​www.​cs.​jhu.​edu/​~svitlana/​.
 
3
Social Network Analysis Reveals Full Scale of Kremlin’s Twitter Bot: https://​globalvoices.​org/​2015/​04/​02/​analyzing-kremlin-twitter-bots/​.
 
5
Ukraine conflict: Inside Russia’s ’Kremlin troll army’: http://​www.​bbc.​com/​news/​world-europe-31962644.
 
9
We prefer Ekman’s emotion classification over others e.g., Plutchik’s, because we would like to compare the performance of our predictive models to other systems.
 
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Morphological analyzer for Russian: https://​pypi.​python.​org/​pypi/​pymorphy2.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Contrasting Public Opinion Dynamics and Emotional Response During Crisis
verfasst von
Svitlana Volkova
Ilia Chetviorkin
Dustin Arendt
Benjamin Van Durme
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47880-7_19

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