[Corpora-List] Fwd: Re: Looking for Text Corpora for emotion analysis(list of emotion words with classification)

Mon May 31 01:24:28 UTC 2010

Dear Bei Yu

Unfortunately, the description of the dictionary has appeared mostly in my  
publications and in a small number of others.

The dictionary has been gathered for about 20 years by a researcher in  
Japanese lexicography, Akira Nakamura, and contains about 2000 expressions  
divided into 10 categories. A small number of the expressions appear in  
more than one category. Nakamura has gathered the expressions manually  
 from Japanese literature. It was done subjectively, although I have never  
met any other collection of emotion words performed in such a proficiency.  
Nakamura was also changing the number of emotion categories during his  
work, trying different options and mappings of popular emotion categories  
onto the Japanese language. The final (present) set of categories consists  
of emotion labels said to be the most appropriate for the Japanese  
language.

As for the positive and negative words, the dictionary does not  
differentiate which emotion category is positive, and which is negative.  
This is, I think, one of the profoundities of this dictionary. As you can  
easily notice, some categories could be used to express both types of  
attitudes (e.g. "surprise" could be both positive or negative). However,  
in my papers I have used a, partially superficial, mapping of those  
categories on a 2-dimensional affect model by James Russell (valence and  
polarity). The combination of Nakamura and Russell goes well in most  
cases, but I had to agree with the fact that the emotion type equivalents  
are not straightforward. For example, for some positive emotions their  
negative equivalent would be more than one and vice versa (e.g. equivalent  
for emotion type "dislike" would be both "foundness" and "joy"). This way  
of looking at emotions also goes along well with Bob Solomon's claims (see  
e.g. "Against valence" in "Not Passion's Slave"  
http://www.psyclab.com/stone/Against%20Valence.doc ) and I would bet that  
eventually this kind of fuzzy emotion labeling would be widely accepted  
for English as well.

The only minus of the dictionary by Nakamura is that it covers only about  
10-20% of modern Japanese language (I confirmed that several times  
experimentally). This could mean two things: 1. the dictionary is out of  
date; or, more probably, 2. the rest of emotive expressions in Japanese is  
either phrase or sentence based.

There have been some attempts to generate an emotion corpora  
automatically, but honestly cannot recommend any, as most of them are too  
simplistic.

At present I am working on developing a method to expand Nakamura's  
dictionary or generate a new phrasal dictionary.

Best regards and good luck with

PS. I had an interesting conversation about emotions in language and  
sentiment analysis with Liz Liddy, whom you probably know, some time ago.  
She came to Hokkaido University for an invited lecture.
--
Michal PTASZYNSKI
Language Media Laboratory, Graduate School of Information Science and  
Technology
Hokkaido University, Address: Kita-ku, Kita 14 Nishi 9, 060-0814 Sapporo,  
Japan
ptaszynski at media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp, ptaszynski at ieee.org
http://arakilab.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/~ptaszynski/

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Od: "Bei Yu" <byu at syr.edu>
Do: "Michal Ptaszynski" <ptaszynski at media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp>
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Temat: Re: [Corpora-List] Looking for Text Corpora for emotion  
analysis(list of emotion words with classification)
Data: Mon, 31 May 2010 00:16:04 +0900

Hi Michael:

Too bad I don't understand Japanese. Do you have any English material
about your dictionary? More specially I am wondering how the
dictionary was created and the numbers of positive and negative words
in the dictionary.

Thanks,
Bei

-- 
Bei Yu
Assistant Professor
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Michal Ptaszynski
<ptaszynski at media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp> wrote:
> For what language? I have developed an affect analysis system, for  
> Japanese,
> which uses a set of such "emotion words" available as a dictionary.
>
> http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/4490103395/ref=dp_change_lang?ie=UTF8&language=en_JP
>
> This dictionary uses a 10-type classification of emotions.
>
> However, if you wish to perform affect analysis for English, you'd be
> probably interested in an emotion classification done especially for this
> language.
>
> --
> Michal PTASZYNSKI
> ptaszynski at ieee.org
>
>
> ------------------
> Od: Mohammad Fazleh Elahi <mohammadfazlehelahi at gmail.com>
> Do: corpora at uib.no
> Data: Fri, 28 May 2010 00:06:21 -1200
> Temat: [Corpora-List] Looking for Text Corpora for emotion analysis(list  
> of
> emotion words with classification)
>
> I m looking for Text Corpus for emotion analysis.More specificaly list of
> emotion words.
> If there is classifciation of strenght like strong emotion word,Medium
> emotion word,light emotion word then
> that is better for my work.
> I have checked the following sources:
> 1.SentWordNet
> http://sentiwordnet.isti.cnr.it/
> I found Senti word with polarity..positive..negative etc.But there is no
> classification
> of list of emotion words.
> 2.SemEval 2007
> http://www.cse.unt.edu/~rada/affectivetext/#datasets
> There are list of words in seperate file of 6 basic emotions like
> anger,fear,disgust etc.
> This corpora is ok but it covers only very basic emtotions.
> 3.WordNet Domains ..HLT group in FBK
> http://wndomains.fbk.eu/wnaffect.html
> the emotion are classified by positve.negative.neutral.
> I already requested for the corpora still waiting for respeonse.
> 4.Google 'list of emotion words'
> I got couple of them but they are not reliable.
>
> It will be nice if anyone suggest me that.
>
>
> Mohammad Fazleh Elahi
> Master in Language and Communication Technology
>
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