INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN ENGINEERING,
MANAGEMENT & APPLIED SCIENCE (IJLTEMAS)
ISSN 2278-2540 | DOI: 10.51583/IJLTEMAS | Volume XIV, Issue IV, April 2025
www.ijltemas.in Page 519
Fine-Grained Emotion Detection from Microblog Data Using
Advanced NLP And Machine Learning Techniques
Pasam Bhanu Siva Rama Krishna, Dr. K. Sailaja
Mohan Babu University Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh, India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.51583/IJLTEMAS.2025.140400054
Received: 16 April 2025; Accepted: 21 April 2025; Published: 10 May 2025
Abstract: Social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook have exploded with user-generated content, offering a
goldmine of data for understanding emotions online. But detecting nuanced feelings—like joy, anger, or surprise—in short, informal
posts is far harder than basic sentiment analysis (which just labels things as "positive" or "negative").
This paper introduces a smarter way to detect emotions in microblogs by blending cutting-edge NLP and machine learning. Our key
innovation? A hybrid model that combines the deep contextual understanding of transformer-based models (like BERT) with
emotion- specific classifiers. Unlike older methods, our system doesn’t just skim the surface—it picks up subtle emotional cues,
even in messy, slang-filled posts.
We also tackle real-world challenges: emojis, sarcasm, and ever-changing internet slang. By fine-tuning our model on a diverse
dataset (covering emotions from disgust to fear), we outperform traditional tools, especially for tricky cases like mixed emotions in
a single tweet. The results? More accurate emotion tracking for applications like mental health monitoring, brand sentiment analysis,
and real-time social media trends.
Keywords: Emotion Detection, Sentiment Analysis, Fine graded sentiment, Microblog data, Natural language processing (NLP)
I. Introduction
Social media users now rely on microblogging platforms including Twitter and Weibo alongside Reddit for public debate through
which they express thoughts and develop opinions and convey emotions in real-time. Big textual databases present researchers with
an exclusive potential to study human emotional reactions on a previously unthinkable scale. The detection of emotions in
microblogs faces difficulties because the short text form displays both imprecise language and non-standard vocabulary. The
detection of fine-grained emotions through emotional classification systems aims to overcome prior limitations by recognizing
individual emotions such as happiness and anger along with sadness and surprise and fear to provide advanced user sentiment and
psychological state analysis. Modern NLP along with machine learning techniques have achieved better results in detecting emotions
in microblog data processing. Progress in research about models and datasets together with multilingual evaluation methods will
boost the dependability and practical usage of delicate emotional detection methods. The research domain shows substantial promise
in artificial intelligence development and social media analysis which leads to superior monitoring
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opportunity to study human emotions at universal dimensions. The detection of emotions from microblogs face important obstacles
because of text brevity as well as ambiguity and Informal textual expression.Conventionally analyzed text sentiments are limited to
simple classification between positive and negative and neutral text when emotion detection systems fail to deliver accurate results.
Fine-grained emotion detection addresses this deficit by detecting emotions with precision through identification of distinct
emotions that include joy together with anger alongside sadness and surprise and fear for deeper understanding of user psychological
conditions. Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) received recent advancements that made text
emotional detection achieve elevated accuracy levels. NLP received a breakthrough through Transformer-based models BERT and
GPT and RoBERTa because these architectures provide models with precise ability to grasp context alongside semantics and
emotional aspects. The classification of emotions gets improved through advanced ML techniques because they enable the use of
vast pre-trained models alongside domain-specific fine-tuning methods. Research into microblog data challenges through combined
lexicon techniques with attention systems and cross-method solutions allows scientists to handle language obstacles from slang and
emojis and code-switching issues.
Many different fields find utility in fine-grained emotion detection since it serves mental health assessment together with sentiment-
based customer evaluation and emergency response systems. Detecting initial indicators of depression or anxiety becomes feasible
through evaluating social media content which leads to prompt intervention opportunities. Measuring customer satisfaction in
business requires companies to evaluate product and service emotionality which leads to enhanced marketing plan optimization.
The assessment of public opinion during emergencies including natural disasters and political unrest becomes possible through
emotion detection for authorities to create customized responses. Researchers struggle to overcome multiple obstacles when aiming
to detect fine- grained emotions in microblogs including limited available high-quality labeled datasets alongside sarcasm and
ironical content and small variations in emotions. Interfacing these challenges demands ongoing breakthroughs in NLP systems and
better data extension methods as well as combined approaches which include text and visual and contextual analysis