How to Overcome Tiredness Estimating Topic-Mood Associations
Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 2007
We address the task of associating moods with a given topic, using a large set of mood-annotated blog posts. We argue that a simple frequency-based baseline does not suffice as it fails to capture topic-dependence. Instead, we propose three models based on language modeling techniques to accomplish the topic-mood association task. Based on anecdotal evidence and other considerations, including complexity and efficiency, we identify a clearly preferred model. the frequency-based baseline just mentioned (see Section 3.1 for a mood-color map, relating moods and colors). 1.