Discovering Emotions through the Building of a Linguistic Resource

Manuela Angioni, Franco Tuveri

2019

Abstract

Specific linguistic resources, syntactically annotated and distinctive for each language, related to the affective sphere are important in discovering terms or phrases associated with emotions in order to detect expressed emotions. The paper proposes the initial version of a linguistic resource for the Italian language, mapped on WordNet, where each concept, whose meaning falls into the sphere of emotions, is enriched by a category, allowing to better specify the type of emotion expressed by the term, and by a polarity value, whether the emotion is positive or negative. The resource is based on the model of emotions proposed by Robert Plutchik and has been developed, within a national project of Work-School Alternation, in collaboration with some high school students. The work has a twofold value. On one hand, the development of a linguistic resource, on the other the educational and didactic aspect of students’ involvement. Working on the analysis of literary texts with the task of elaborating and defining the emotions described, the students, assisted by their teachers and two researchers, had to face with their feelings and talk more freely about their affective states, recognizing the emotions and giving them a name.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Angioni M. and Tuveri F. (2019). Discovering Emotions through the Building of a Linguistic Resource.In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-386-5, pages 351-357. DOI: 10.5220/0008352803510357

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist19,
author={Manuela Angioni and Franco Tuveri},
title={Discovering Emotions through the Building of a Linguistic Resource},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2019},
pages={351-357},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008352803510357},
isbn={978-989-758-386-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Discovering Emotions through the Building of a Linguistic Resource
SN - 978-989-758-386-5
AU - Angioni M.
AU - Tuveri F.
PY - 2019
SP - 351
EP - 357
DO - 10.5220/0008352803510357