Emotional metaphors for emotion recognition in chinese text

  • Authors:
  • Xiaoxi Huang;Yun Yang;Changle Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, P.R. China;Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Xiamen University, P.R. China;College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • ACII'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The affections of a person can be expressed by non-verbal methods such as facial expressions, gestures, postures and expressions from eyes. While implicit language like emotional metaphor is also an important way to express one’s affections. Different kinds of emotional metaphors in Chinese and their characteristics are proposed, including happiness, sadness, anger, fear and surprise. Experiment result shows the characteristics of Chinese emotional metaphors are reasonable. The importance of emotional metaphors in emotion recognition is also discussed.