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An emotional mess! Deciding on a framework for building a Dutch emotion-annotated corpus

Year: 2020
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Seeing the myriad of existing emotion models, with the categorical versus dimensional opposition the most important dividing line, building an emotion-annotated corpus requires some well thought-out strategies concerning framework choice. In our work on automatic emotion detection in Dutch texts, we investigate this problem by means of two case studies. We find that the labels joy, love, anger, sadness and fear are well-suited to annotate texts coming from various domains and topics, but that the connotation of the labels strongly depends on the origin of the texts. Moreover, it seems that information is lost when an emotional state is forcedly classified in a limited set of categories, indicating that a bi-representational format is desirable when creating an emotion corpus.
Institution: Ghent University
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3029195062
FWCI: 0.239
Cites: 22
Cited by: 5
Related to: 10