TY - GEN
T1 - Textual affect sensing for sociable and expressive online communication
AU - Neviarouskaya, Alena
AU - Prendinger, Helmut
AU - Ishizuka, Mitsuru
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In this paper, we address the tasks of recognition and interpretation of affect communicated through text messaging. The evolving nature of language in online conversations is a main issue in affect sensing from this media type, since sentence parsing might fail while syntactical structure analysis. The developed Affect Analysis Model was designed to handle not only correctly written text, but also informal messages written in abbreviated or expressive manner. The proposed rule-based approach processes each sentence in sequential stages, including symbolic cue processing, detection and transformation of abbreviations, sentence parsing, and word/phrase/sentence-level analyses. In a study based on 160 sentences, the system result agrees with at least two out of three human annotators in 70% of the cases. In order to reflect the detected affective information and social behaviour, an avatar was created.
AB - In this paper, we address the tasks of recognition and interpretation of affect communicated through text messaging. The evolving nature of language in online conversations is a main issue in affect sensing from this media type, since sentence parsing might fail while syntactical structure analysis. The developed Affect Analysis Model was designed to handle not only correctly written text, but also informal messages written in abbreviated or expressive manner. The proposed rule-based approach processes each sentence in sequential stages, including symbolic cue processing, detection and transformation of abbreviations, sentence parsing, and word/phrase/sentence-level analyses. In a study based on 160 sentences, the system result agrees with at least two out of three human annotators in 70% of the cases. In order to reflect the detected affective information and social behaviour, an avatar was created.
KW - Affective sensing from text
KW - Affective user interface
KW - Avatar
KW - Emotions
KW - Language parsing and understanding
KW - Online communication
KW - Text analysis
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38049089773
SN - 9783540748885
VL - 4738 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 218
EP - 229
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2007
Y2 - 12 September 2007 through 14 September 2007
ER -