The emotion ontology: enabling interdisciplinary research in the affective sciences

Authors:
Janna Hastings;Werner Ceusters;Barry Smith;Kevin Mulligan
Affiliations:
Department of Philosophy and Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland and Chemoinformatics and Metabolism, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK;Department of Psychiatry and Ontology Research Group, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, NY;Department of Philosophy and National Center for Ontological Research, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, NY;Department of Philosophy and Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Venue:
CONTEXT'11 Proceedings of the 7th international and interdisciplinary conference on Modeling and using context
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Affective science conducts interdisciplinary research into the emotions and other affective phenomena. Currently, such research is hampered by the lack of common definitions of terms used to describe, cate-gorise and report both individual emotional experiences and the results of scientific investigations of such experiences. High quality ontologies provide formal definitions for types of entities in reality and for the relationships between such entities, definitions which can be used to disambiguate and unify data across different disciplines. Heretofore, there has been little effort directed towards such formal representation for affective phenomena, in part because of widespread debates within the affective science community on matters of definition and categorization. To address this requirement, we are developing an Emotion Ontology (EMO). The full ontology and generated OWLDoc documentation are available for download from https://emotion-ontology.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ under the Creative Commons - Attribution license (CC BY 3.0).