FLE: A Fuzzy Logic Algorithm for Classification of Emotions in Literary Corpora

Luis-Gil Moreno-Jiménez, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Hanifa Boucheneb, Roseli S. Wedemann

2020

Abstract

This paper presents an algorithm based on fuzzy logic, devised to identify emotions in corpora of literary texts, called Fuzzy Logic Emotions (FLE) classifier. This algorithm evaluates a sentence to define the class(es) of emotions to which it belongs. For this purpose, it considers three types of linguistic variables (verb, noun and adjective) with associated linguistic values used to qualify the emotion they express. A numerical value is computed for each of these terms within a sentence, based on its frequency and the inverse document frequency (TF-IDF). We have tested our FLE classifier with an evaluation protocol, using a literary corpus in Spanish specially structured for working with the automatic detection of emotions in text. We present encouraging performance results favoring our FLE classifier, when compared to other known algorithms established in the literature used for the detection of emotions in text.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Moreno-Jiménez L., Torres-Moreno J., Boucheneb H. and Wedemann R. (2020). FLE: A Fuzzy Logic Algorithm for Classification of Emotions in Literary Corpora. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 1: KDIR; ISBN 978-989-758-474-9, SciTePress, pages 202-209. DOI: 10.5220/0010110902020209

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir20,
author={Luis-Gil Moreno-Jiménez and Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno and Hanifa Boucheneb and Roseli S. Wedemann},
title={FLE: A Fuzzy Logic Algorithm for Classification of Emotions in Literary Corpora},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 1: KDIR},
year={2020},
pages={202-209},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010110902020209},
isbn={978-989-758-474-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 1: KDIR
TI - FLE: A Fuzzy Logic Algorithm for Classification of Emotions in Literary Corpora
SN - 978-989-758-474-9
AU - Moreno-Jiménez L.
AU - Torres-Moreno J.
AU - Boucheneb H.
AU - Wedemann R.
PY - 2020
SP - 202
EP - 209
DO - 10.5220/0010110902020209
PB - SciTePress