[Air-L] emotion detection machine?

[Jessica Pater]

Charles,

Another tool you might want to look into is LIWC http://liwc.wpengine.com/.

Jess

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 6:52 AM Charles M. Ess <c.m.ess at media.uio.no> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> One of our students is wanting to analyze emotional content in in the
> comment fields of a major newspaper vis-a-vis specific hot-button issues.
>
> She has a good tool (I think) for scrapping the data - but she is
> stymied over the choice of an emotion analysis tool. She has looked at
> Senpy (http://senpy.gsi.upm.es/#test) and  Twinword
> <https://www.twinword.com/api/emotion-analysis.php> - the latter seems
> the most accurate, but it is also expensive.
> She has recently discovered DepecheMood emotion lexicons (Staiano, J., &
> Guerini, M. (2014). Depechemood: a lexicon for emotion analysis from
> crowd-annotated news. arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1605.) - but this
> suffers from a lack of clarity in terms of explaining its emotional
> categories: awe, indifference, sad, amusement , annoyance, joy, fear and
> anger.
>
> For my part, I am entirely clueless.  Any suggestions that she might
> pursue would be greatly appreciated.
>
> best,
> - charles ess
> --
> Professor in Media Studies
> Department of Media and Communication
> University of Oslo
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Jessica A. Pater
PhD Candidate, Human Centered Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
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