A Survey of Social Emotion Prediction Methods

Emotions are an important factor that affects our communication. Considerable research has been done to detect and classify emotion in text. However, most deal with emotion from the writer's perspective. Social emotion is the emotion of the reader when exposed to the text. With the increased use of social media, many works are performed for social emotion prediction. In this paper, we attempt to provide a survey of social emotion prediction methods. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to survey the literature of social emotion, review methods, and used techniques, compare the methods, and highlight their limitations