Actor level emotion magnitude prediction in text and speech

  • Authors:
  • Ricardo A. Calix;Gerald M. Knapp

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA;College of Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

  • Venue:
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The digital universe is expanding at very high rates. New ways of retrieving and enriching text and audio content are required. In this work, a methodology for actor level emotion magnitude prediction in text and speech is proposed. A model is trained to predict emotion magnitudes per actor at any point in a story using previous emotion magnitudes plus current text and speech features which act on the actor's emotional state. The methodology compares linear and non-linear regression techniques to determine the optimal model that fits the data. Results of the analysis show that non-linear regression models based on Support Vector Regression (SVR) using a Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel provide the most accurate prediction model. An analysis of the contribution of the features for emotion magnitude prediction is performed.