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Emotion Experience, Expression, and Perception: Emotion Analysis on Multimodal Social Media Posts

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 16, 2026 · UTC

Emotions are an essential aspect of human communication, particularly on social media, where authors frequently combine text and images to convey their emotions. Yet prior work on emotion analysis of social media posts has overlooked two important aspects in regard to measuring how well readers can reconstruct the authors' intent: (1)~the image modality, with most work focusing solely on text, and (2)~the real-world events that trigger the expressed emotions, and their relationship to the post content. We therefore study the relation between (a) the author's experience of the event that caused

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