With emerging new media technologies, the analytic focus of research on international public opinions has switched from single content form, such as text, audio, image or video into multiple forms of media integrated together in cyberspace or in physical space. The depth and frequency of monitoring international public opinion on topics related to China are improving rapidly. This paper pinpoints the inadequacies of current monitoring activities and puts forward ways to analyze international public opinions on topics related to China based on technologies, such as web indexing, deep learning and data mining. Thematic discovery based on big data analytics, real-time surveillance and monitoring of trending topics, intelligent prediction of popularity, intelligent analysis of emotional valence, etc. can effectively support the establishment of a system using multimedia data to monitor and analyze international public opinion.
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