Challenge: Recent research has focused on identifying affective events in text, which are activities or states that positively or negatively affect the people who experience them.
Approach: They propose to categorize affective events based upon human need categories that often explain people’s motivations and desires: PHYSIOLOGICAL, HEALTH, LEISURE, SOCIAL, FINANCIAL, COGNITION, and FREEDOM.
Outcome: The proposed model learns from unlabeled data and produces significantly better results than individual classifiers.

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