journal article·2026-05-12Open access

Sentiment Modeling of Cross-Cultural Public Opinion Communication: A Case Study of the 28 March 2025 Earthquake in Sagaing Province Based on the Improved MAML Algorithm

Tongyan Zheng, Meng Huang, Chong Xu, Shuai Liu, Haoran Dong, Xiudan Ma, Keifeng Wang

Applied Sciences· Volume 16· Issue 10

Abstract

Faced with the challenges of cross-cultural communication of public opinion in emergency events, traditional sentiment recognition methods struggle to accurately capture the complex semantics under multi-lingual and multi-symbol systems. This paper takes the powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar in 2025 as a case study. It constructs a multi-dimensional public opinion annotation framework that integrates four types of semantic information—time, space, subject, and sentiment—by extracting data from multi-source textual materials, including social media, news reports, and government announcements. Building on this foundation, we design an improved Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) model that incorporates cultural features to enhance sentiment recognition performance in low-resource cross-linguistic scenarios. Experimental results show that the model outperforms traditional methods in terms of sentiment classification accuracy, cultural semantic deviation rate and metaphor recognition ability. Furthermore, the research reveals the coupling mechanism of public opinion communication of “cultural modulation–agenda game”, and clarifies the influence paths and weight distributions among multiple subjects. The research results provide theoretical support and practical paths for improving the governance capacity of cross-border public opinion in emergency events and the construction of multilingual monitoring models.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Misinformation and Its Impacts

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Affiliations

China Earthquake Networks Center, CEA, Beijing 100045, China

School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Emergency Management, Langfang 065201, China

National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management of China, Beijing 100085, China

Key Laboratory of Compound and Chained Natural Hazards Dynamics, Ministry of Emergency Management of China, Beijing 100085, China

School of Geophysics and Space Exploration, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, China

Funding

China Earthquake Administration Policy Research Project XLM-T · National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management of China

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