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A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence".

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Dr. Carlos A. Iglesias

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Intelligent Systems Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: multiagent systems; social computing; linked data; natural language processing; affect technology; machine learning
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Dr. Viviana Patti

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Dipartimento di Informatica, Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino (Italy), Università di Torino
Interests: natural language processing; affective computing; sentiment analysis; irony detection; social semantic web

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Dear Colleagues,

Social networks are becoming more and more present in our daily life. According to the Global Web Index, digital consumers spend an average of 2 hours a day on social media and messaging. Thus, a large body of research has been developed in the last years to process automatically social media and social networks, with the aim of understanding, discovering insights and exploiting this information. All this has contributed to the development of research areas such as sentiment analysis and social network analysis. The new communication media offer a unique opportunity to observe "in the wild" feelings and reactions spontaneously expressed on different topics, often using figurative language: sarcastic messages can be the ones that spread more virulently.

Nowadays the focus of research is moving from polarity classification to more advanced and fine-grained aspects, which can reveal insights on users’ emotions or personality traits, or to their specific stance towards a target in online political debates, where also the presence of hate speech is an important issue to monitor, for preventing interference with other rights and the occasioning of certain harms. Temporal evolution of opinions in online communities is also a hot research topic, which calls for a combination of sentiment and social network analysis techniques.

The aim of this special issue is to put together contributions that analyze strong feelings, such as love or hate in social media and social networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Detection of opinions in debates on controversial topics
Emotion diffusion in social networks and social media
Emotion analysis techniques
Affective ontologies
Multimodal sentiment and emotion analysis
Time evolving opinion and sentiment analysis
Hate speech detection in social media
Stance detection in social media
Figurative language and sarcasm in online debates
Applications of emotion aware techniques

Dr. Carlos A. Iglesias
Dr. Viviana Patti
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Emotion analysis
Affective computing
Sentiment analysis
Hate speech detection
Opinion Mining

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Editorial for the Special Issue on “Love & Hate in the Time of Social Media and Social Networks”

Carlos A. Iglesias

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Viviana Patti

Information 2018, 9(8), 185; https://doi.org/10.3390/info9080185 - 25 Jul 2018

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TwitPersonality: Computing Personality Traits from Tweets Using Word Embeddings and Supervised Learning

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Information 2018, 9(5), 127; https://doi.org/10.3390/info9050127 - 18 May 2018

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We are what we do, like, and say. Numerous research efforts have been pushed towards the automatic assessment of personality dimensions relying on a set of information gathered from social media platforms such as list of friends, interests of musics and movies, endorsements and likes an individual has ever performed. Turning this information into signals and giving them as inputs to supervised learning approaches has resulted in being particularly effective and accurate in computing personality traits and types. Despite the demonstrated accuracy of these approaches, the sheer amount of information needed to put in place such a methodology and access restrictions make them unfeasible to be used in a real usage scenario. In this paper, we propose a supervised learning approach to compute personality traits by only relying on what an individual tweets about publicly. The approach segments tweets in tokens, then it learns word vector representations as embeddings that are then used to feed a supervised learner classifier. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach by measuring the mean squared error of the learned model using an international benchmark of Facebook status updates. We also test the transfer learning predictive power of this model with an in-house built benchmark created by twenty four panelists who performed a state-of-the-art psychological survey and we observe a good conversion of the model while analyzing their Twitter posts towards the personality traits extracted from the survey. Full article

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A Comparison of Emotion Annotation Approaches for Text

Ian D. Wood

John P. McCrae

Vladimir Andryushechkin

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Paul Buitelaar

Information 2018, 9(5), 117; https://doi.org/10.3390/info9050117 - 11 May 2018

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While the recognition of positive/negative sentiment in text is an established task with many standard data sets and well developed methodologies, the recognition of a more nuanced affect has received less attention: there are few publicly available annotated resources and there are a number of competing emotion representation schemes with as yet no clear approach to choose between them. To address this lack, we present a series of emotion annotation studies on tweets, providing methods for comparisons between annotation methods (relative vs. absolute) and between different representation schemes. We find improved annotator agreement with a relative annotation scheme (comparisons) on a dimensional emotion model over a categorical annotation scheme on Ekman’s six basic emotions; however, when we compare inter-annotator agreement for comparisons with agreement for a rating scale annotation scheme (both with the same dimensional emotion model), we find improved inter-annotator agreement with rating scales, challenging a common belief that relative judgements are more reliable. To support these studies and as a contribution in itself, we further present a publicly available collection of 2019 tweets annotated with scores on each of four emotion dimensions: valence, arousal, dominance and surprise, following the emotion representation model identified by Fontaine et al. in 2007. Full article

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Towards Aiding Decision-Making in Social Networks by Using Sentiment and Stress Combined Analysis

Guillem Aguado

Vicente Julian

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Ana Garcia-Fornes

Information 2018, 9(5), 107; https://doi.org/10.3390/info9050107 - 02 May 2018

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The present work is a study of the detection of negative emotional states that people have using social network sites (SNSs), and the effect that this negative state has on the repercussions of posted messages. We aim to discover in which grade a user having an affective state considered negative by an Analyzer can affect other users and generate bad repercussions. Those Analyzers that we propose are a Sentiment Analyzer, a Stress Analyzer and a novel combined Analyzer. We also want to discover what Analyzer is more suitable to predict a bad future situation, and in what context. We designed a Multi-Agent System (MAS) that uses different Analyzers to protect or advise users. This MAS uses the trained and tested Analyzers to predict future bad situations in social media, which could be triggered by the actions of a user that has an emotional state considered negative. We conducted an experimentation with different datasets of text messages from Twitter.com to examine the ability of the system to predict bad repercussions, by comparing the polarity, stress level or combined value classification of the messages that are replies to the ones of the messages that originated them. Full article

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