FB-SEC-1: A Social Emotion Cause Dataset
Abdullah Alsaedi, Stuart Thomason, Floriana Grasso, Phillip Brooker · 2023
“Social emotion” in text mining refers to the emotion experienced by the reader exposed to a text, as opposed to the emotion conveyed from the author’s perspective. Mining the cause of social emotion from text is a new challenging task with a wide range of applications, but its progress is hindered by the lack of annotated datasets. In this paper, we release the first English dataset for social emotion cause. The dataset is based on a well-established corpus of Facebook posts, and it was annotated through a crowdsourcing experiment. Together with the dataset, we provide two baseline models to be used as benchmarks for future studies.