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Table 1 Sample tweets obtained in late 2012 during the Sandy hurricane along with the resulting emotion class output from the developed emotion classifier

From: Emotion classification of social media posts for estimating people’s reactions to communicated alert messages during crises

Tweet

Predicted class

the anticipation of when the power is going to go out! I NEED TO STUDY WHAT IS HAPPENING STOP SANDY

Anger

God damn it #sandy! There goes my cable...

Anger

Sandy just made landfall on the great State of New Jersey & NYC. Hang tight, you guys.

Anger

Sandy has denied me my jog. I’m crying as much as it’s raining right now...

Anger

Shed in backyard was knocked over #sandy

Other

Lovely, there are fallen tree branches in my swimming pool. Eh, It could be worse... #413Sandy #MASandy #Sandy

Positive

So my childhood beach town is basically being destroyed. That’s cool.. Stupid Sandy. :/

Anger

So much food in my house because my moms stocking up for Sandy. I’m cool with it.

Anger

Hurricane Sandy might not kill me but this boredom sure will. -__-

Anger

This storm sandy is so scary :0 #scarystuff #mothernature

Fear

Hurricane Sandy is powerful af!!! This wind is NO joke!!!

Other

Power back on. Not sure how much longer that will last. Damn you #sandy - get up off my #raw!

Anger

im like really scared.... stuff like this doesn’t happen in Ohio ! #Sandy #Manhattan

Fear

NZ’s embassy in Washington is closed as the city hunkers down ahead of #Sandy

Other

11 killed in #Cuba, #Sandy toll reaches 51 in #Haiti

Other