论文标题
愤怒引起争议：分析Reddit上的争议和情感
Anger Breeds Controversy: Analyzing Controversy and Emotions on Reddit
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论文摘要
情绪在人际交往和社会冲突中起着重要的作用，但尚未探讨它们在在线对话中的争议和分歧发展中的功能。为了解决这一差距，我们研究了Reddit的争议，Reddit是一个流行的在线讨论论坛网络。我们从各种主题论坛中收集讨论，并使用情感检测来认识到文本中的一系列情感，包括愤怒，恐惧，喜悦，钦佩等。我们的研究有三个主要发现。首先，有争议的评论比非争辩的评论表达了更多的愤怒，更少的钦佩，喜悦和乐观。其次，有争议的评论会在讨论中影响下游评论的情绪，通常导致愤怒的长期增加和积极情绪的减少，尽管情绪改变的幅度和方向取决于论坛。最后，我们表明情绪有助于更好地预测哪些评论将变得有争议。了解在线讨论的情感动态可以帮助社区更好地管理对话。
Emotions play an important role in interpersonal interactions and social conflict, yet their function in the development of controversy and disagreement in online conversations has not been explored. To address this gap, we study controversy on Reddit, a popular network of online discussion forums. We collect discussions from a wide variety of topical forums and use emotion detection to recognize a range of emotions from text, including anger, fear, joy, admiration, etc. Our study has three main findings. First, controversial comments express more anger and less admiration, joy and optimism than non-controversial comments. Second, controversial comments affect emotions of downstream comments in a discussion, usually resulting in long-term increase in anger and a decrease in positive emotions, although the magnitude and direction of emotional change depends on the forum. Finally, we show that emotions help better predict which comments will become controversial. Understanding emotional dynamics of online discussions can help communities to better manage conversations.
