CSC NewsApril 23, 2012 Who Says Social Media Has No Emotion?
Have you ever wondered what someone really meant in the tweets
or emails you read on a daily basis? Are they written by someone
who means what they say or is angry, apathetic or just devoid of
emotion? Or perhaps you are reading too much into the text,
which has happened to almost anyone who has been on the
receiving end of an unclear electronic response. The written
word can be so hard to discern because of the lack of voice
inflection, eye contact and facial expressions. As the newer
forms of communication boom in popularity -- texting, emailing
and tweeting – the human emotion gets further and further
removed from the message. In an effort to analyze and identify
those seemingly obtuse emails and tweets, graduate student
Siddarth Ramaswamy and undergraduate student Carson Holgate
worked with Dr. Christopher Healey (pictured), an associate
professor of Computer Science at NC State, to develop a method
of identifying the emotion behind social media