Public Behavior and Emotion Correlation Mining Driven by Aspect From News Corpus

Emotion motivates behavior. Investigating the correlation between behavior and emotion, an often overlooked perspective, plays a significant role in uncovering the underlying motives behind behaviors and the intrinsic cause-effects of social events. This article proposes a methodology for mining the correlation between public behavior and emotion using daily news data. Initially, aspect-emotion–reaction (A-E-R) triplets are extracted and generalized, encompassing both explicit and implicit patterns. Then, a knowledge representation model based on hypothetical context (KRHC) with a self-reflection mechanism is proposed to uncover implicit relationships between emotion and behavior through attention mechanisms. By combining rule-based methods for explicit relationships and deep learning for implicit ones, an understanding of emotion-behavior patterns is achieved. In this study, the behaviors are divided into three categories of prosocial, antisocial, and normal behaviors with ten secondary types. Seven categories of emotions are adopted. The proposed deep learning model KRHC is validated on A-E-R datasets and public KINSHIP datasets. The experiment results are concluded; for example, when “fear,” “sad,” and “surprise” emotions appear, it drives behavior “panic” with most probability. These findings could provide insights for both human-computer interaction and public safety management applications.