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Table 4: Emotional targets found in the middle Z-score set.
Range of P
pos.
/ Sample of emotional targets
90% – 100%/ company, foreign exchange, accident,
lunch, newest information, image, coffin, knowledge,
going to sleep, customer, cover, lottery, Yakisoba(fried
noodles), new mail, salary
80% – 90%/ rest, musical, garlic, house, animation,
bumber ticket, ambulance car, dam, soft cream, ticket,
actual place, plan, Mr. Aso, Soumen(fine noodles), 3 days,
revision, high school basebale tournament
70% – 80%/ chance, Gyoza(pot sticker), Obon
(Japanese Summer holidays), clothes, reference book,
sheep, access counts, proposal, boyfriend/girlfriend, son,
once, Japanese people, stairs, guys, past questions, movies
60% – 70%/ cloud, characteristics, senior, process,
short, street stall, milk, potato, world view, flower langu-
age, high school days, panel, course, room, Mr. Kouichi,
response, joy, park, Tokyo, tombstone, TVCM, RPG
50% – 60%/ helmet, boys, Japanese, lecture, environ-
ment problem, curren, strain (feeling), water place, safe
management, game, Yankees, vanilla, category, climbing
Mt. Fuji, Beawanpi(one-piece dress), expected software,
40% – 50%/ fear, triathlon, batted ball, immediately
after, sitting comfort, Osaka Touin(school), young people,
ear, mood, Shun(person), dark, whole life, love, future,
meal time, driving, competition, ultraviolet rays
30% – 40%/ obligation, corner, leukemia, prejudice,
under construction, terrorist, feeling of intimacy, Hikari
(light, fiber-optic cable), natural environment, belly,
member on the regular payroll, symptoms, oneself
20% – 30%/ abnormal weather, contents of work,
darkness, otherwise, fatigue, narrow, crowdedness, life, SAP
for maker, love, elegant, property management, shooting
(film), a liitle happy, aphthous ulcer, drawback, husband
10% – 20%/ HIV, bewilderment, muddy, allow, noon,
twice or more, provery of blood, marriage, put away, 30,
your body, a hip joint, load (of baggage), shame, headache,
next election of Presentative, scarcity of water, hallucination
0% – 10%/ Furafura(dizzily), Japan High School
Baseball Federation, molar tooth, panic, a chief secretary-
Aso Taro, continuation, breast cancer, camp, sleeplessness,
respect, strained back, ant, sleeping posture
* Extracted from the interval Aug. 1st - 7th 2008. Trans-
lated into English by the author of this paper.
6 CONCLUSIONS
This paper proposed an affective blog analyzer
(ABLANA) which crawls blog articles along a time
series from the Web and analyzes people’s emotional
targets. The method for emotion reasoning uses a sen-
tence pattern dictionary. The original dictionary is
A-Japanese-Lexicon. It covers Japanese fundamental
6,000 verbs and consists of 14,800 patterns. In this
paper, the extended dictionary is used, where emo-
tional information is annotated if pattern expresses
emotional processes (arousal, state and response).
In the experiments, the extracted emotional tar-
gets can be filtered and sorted by two parameters,
for instance, the Z-score in terms of the frequency of
the keyword appearance and the probability of emo-
tions. These parameters are so effective that trendy
and emotional targets can be captured. Thus, the do-
main independent affective analyzer is successfully
constructed. It is expected to practically apply this
technique to capture people’s affective statements.
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