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As people increasingly prefer to express their personal opinions through media platforms, the opinions of the general public have become an indispensable reference. However, information asymmetry can have a significant impact on the rationality of decision-making. Based on the above considerations, this paper extends bidirectional projection to probabilistic linguistic term sets to preserve the completeness of information as much as possible. The large-scale group decision-making problem under the probabilistic linguistic environment is extended to limited interval values, and a new group decision-making method named IVBPRT-ELECTRE III algorithm (ELECTRE III based on bidirectional projection and regret theory under limited interval-valued probabilistic linguistic term set) is proposed. The method is an extended ELECTRE\u00a0III method based on limited interval-valued probabilistic linguistic term set (l-IVPLTS) bidirectional projection by regret theory approach. Firstly, this involves mining the online text comment information on social media about an emergency and considering the effect of the number of fans, determining the attributes and their initial weights for judging the strengths and weaknesses of the emergency management alternative using the TF-IDF and the Word2vec technology, and using the entropy value to adjust the initial weight of attributes, not only considering the real opinions of the public, but also combining with the views of experts, making the decision-making alternative selection more scientific and reasonable. Secondly, this paper fills the gap of bidirectional projection under l-IVPLTS environment; then, combining l-IVPLTS bidirectional projection and regret theory to determine the objective weights of experts, combines the differences in individual expertise of experts to obtain the comprehensive weights of experts, and uses the extended ELECTRE\u00a0III method to rank the alternatives. 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