Why Do You Feel This Way? Summarizing Triggers of Emotions in Social Media Posts

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Crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic continuously threaten our world and emotionally affect billions of people worldwide in distinct ways.

• Understanding the triggers leading to people's emotions is of crucial importance.
• Social media posts can be a good source of such analysis, yet these texts tend to be charged with multiple emotions, with triggers scattering across multiple sentences.
• This paper takes a novel angle, namely, emotion detection and trigger summarization, aiming to both detect perceived emotions in text, and summarize events and their appraisals that trigger each emotion.