Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation. 5th International Conference, ArtsIT 2016, and First International Conference, DLI 2016, Esbjerg, Denmark, May 2–3, 2016, Proceedings

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Analysing Emotional Sentiment in People’s YouTube Channel Comments

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-55834-9_21,
        author={Eleanor Mulholland and Paul Mc Kevitt and Tom Lunney and Karl-Michael Schneider},
        title={Analysing Emotional Sentiment in People’s YouTube Channel Comments},
        proceedings={Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation. 5th International Conference, ArtsIT 2016, and First International Conference, DLI 2016, Esbjerg, Denmark, May 2--3, 2016, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={ARTSIT \& DLI},
        year={2017},
        month={3},
        keywords={360-MAM-Affect 360-MAM-Select Affective computing Brit Lab EmoSenticNet Gamification Google YouTube API Head Squeeze Machine learning Natural language processing Recommender system Sentiment analysis YouTube YouTube EDU},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-55834-9_21}
    }
    
  • Eleanor Mulholland
    Paul Mc Kevitt
    Tom Lunney
    Karl-Michael Schneider
    Year: 2017
    Analysing Emotional Sentiment in People’s YouTube Channel Comments
    ARTSIT & DLI
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55834-9_21
Eleanor Mulholland1,*, Paul Mc Kevitt1,*, Tom Lunney1,*, Karl-Michael Schneider2,*
  • 1: Ulster University
  • 2: Google Ireland Ltd.
*Contact email: mulholland-e9@email.ulster.ac.uk, p.mckevitt@ulster.ac.uk, tf.lunney@ulster.ac.uk, karlmicha@gmail.com

Abstract

Online recommender systems are useful for media asset management where they select the best content from a set of media assets. We are developing a recommender system called 360-MAM-Select for educational video content. 360-MAM-Select utilises sentiment analysis, emotion modeling and gamification techniques applied to people’s comments on videos, for the recommendation of media assets. Here, we discuss the architecture of 360-MAM-Select, including its sentiment analysis module, 360-MAM-Affect and gamification module, 360-Gamify. 360-MAM-Affect is implemented with the YouTube API [9], GATE [5] for natural language processing, EmoSenticNet [8] for identifying emotion words and RapidMiner [20] to count the average frequency of emotion words identified. 360-MAM-Affect is tested by tagging comments on the YouTube channels, Brit Lab/Head Squeeze [3], YouTube EDU [28], Sam Pepper [22] and MyTop100Videos [18] with EmoSenticNet [8] in order to identify emotional sentiment. Our results show that and are the most frequent emotions across all the YouTube channel comments. Future work includes further implementation and testing of 360-MAM-Select deploying the Unifying Framework [25] and Emotion-Imbued Choice (EIC) model [13] within 360-MAM-Affect for emotion modelling, by collecting emotion feedback and sentiment from users when they interact with media content. Future work also includes implementation of the gamification module, 360-Gamify, in order to check its suitability for improving user participation with the Octalysis gamification framework [4].