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title = "Interpretation of the level of {ANGER} in discussion forum",
author = "Soon, Suet Ching",
editor = "Chang, Kai-Wei and
Lu, Ke-Han and
Yang, Chih-Kai and
Tam, Zhi-Rui and
Chang, Wen-Yu and
Wang, Chung-Che",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2025)",
month = nov,
year = "2025",
address = "National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.rocling-main.40/",
pages = "369--374",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-379-1",
abstract = "In this internet era, people have easy access of a vast many options of social media platforms for quick communicating or interacting. The ways how internet users conveyed their emotional expression attracted our interest. This present paper investigates the literal emotional expression of ANGER in Chinese online discussion forum, targeting the term nu4 `angry/anger'. We referred to a Bulletin Board System (BBS) in Taiwan which is a conversation-like platform with no emoji icon to convey emotion directly. A collection of 7,464 instances were retrieved from the platform. After deducting noisy data, we looked into the meanings and distribution of nu4 of the 7,285 instances. With nearly a quarter of the data instances belonged to the unconventional use of nu4 where the expression does not necessarily show the emotion of anger, we further analyzed the col-locations of these instances. In conclusions, from the collocates of these unconventional use of nu4, it showed a shift from the expression of emotion to aggressiveness, and to express the extent level of an action."
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%T Interpretation of the level of ANGER in discussion forum
%A Soon, Suet Ching
%Y Chang, Kai-Wei
%Y Lu, Ke-Han
%Y Yang, Chih-Kai
%Y Tam, Zhi-Rui
%Y Chang, Wen-Yu
%Y Wang, Chung-Che
%S Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2025)
%D 2025
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan
%@ 979-8-89176-379-1
%F soon-2025-interpretation
%X In this internet era, people have easy access of a vast many options of social media platforms for quick communicating or interacting. The ways how internet users conveyed their emotional expression attracted our interest. This present paper investigates the literal emotional expression of ANGER in Chinese online discussion forum, targeting the term nu4 ‘angry/anger’. We referred to a Bulletin Board System (BBS) in Taiwan which is a conversation-like platform with no emoji icon to convey emotion directly. A collection of 7,464 instances were retrieved from the platform. After deducting noisy data, we looked into the meanings and distribution of nu4 of the 7,285 instances. With nearly a quarter of the data instances belonged to the unconventional use of nu4 where the expression does not necessarily show the emotion of anger, we further analyzed the col-locations of these instances. In conclusions, from the collocates of these unconventional use of nu4, it showed a shift from the expression of emotion to aggressiveness, and to express the extent level of an action.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.rocling-main.40/
%P 369-374
Markdown (Informal)
[Interpretation of the level of ANGER in discussion forum](https://aclanthology.org/2025.rocling-main.40/) (Soon, ROCLING 2025)
ACL
- Suet Ching Soon. 2025. Interpretation of the level of ANGER in discussion forum. In Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2025), pages 369–374, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan. Association for Computational Linguistics.