Emotion intensity detection for social media data

Abstract

Social networking sites, blogs and many more informal texting sites have taken a center stage in our lives, and in this informal messages we tend to show a lot of emotions towards a certain social cause or towards friends. Quite impressive work is done in emotion analysis or emotion classification area, but we require algorithms to identify emotion strength/intensity from informal and short text messages. Emotion intensity from a short text can help us in identifying the degree of emotion in a sentence belonging to the same emotion category. This paper proposes a novel idea for solving the problem of identification of emotion intensity from social media data.