A Measurement of Text Emotion Complexity in Micro-blog

Abstract

More and more people express their personal views and opinions to an event through micro-blog at the same time they also convey their emotions. The micro-blog can reflect the relationship between the event and people's interests, the degree of influence. The emotional complexity of a text is to measure the variety of people's emotional response in a text. In this paper the text is the whole micro-blog, including the micro-blog text and its comments. The emotional complexity of all micro-blog related an event can reflect the complexity and importance of the event itself. Monitoring the emotional strength and emotional complexity of all micro-blogs can help to know the development of the event and to determine the next action. Based on the relationship between basic emotions, a method of measuring the complexity of emotion is proposed. It can measure the complexity of emotional reaction to the event.