Jincheng Mei


2017

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Identifying and Tracking Sentiments and Topics from Social Media Texts during Natural Disasters
Min Yang | Jincheng Mei | Heng Ji | Wei Zhao | Zhou Zhao | Xiaojun Chen
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

We study the problem of identifying the topics and sentiments and tracking their shifts from social media texts in different geographical regions during emergencies and disasters. We propose a location-based dynamic sentiment-topic model (LDST) which can jointly model topic, sentiment, time and Geolocation information. The experimental results demonstrate that LDST performs very well at discovering topics and sentiments from social media and tracking their shifts in different geographical regions during emergencies and disasters. We will release the data and source code after this work is published.