Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis Emotion, Metaphor and Terminology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ahmad, Khurshid (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, 45
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data mining.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computational linguistics.; Psychology.; Computer Science.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Computational Linguistics.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Psychology, general.

This volume maps the watershed areas between two 'holy grails' of computer science: the identification and interpretation of affect – including sentiment and mood. The expression of sentiment and mood involves the use of metaphors, especially in emotive situations. Affect computing is root...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Affect Computing and Sentiment Analysis. References
• 1. Understanding Metaphors: The Paradox of Unlike Things Compared by Sam Glucksberg
• 2. Metaphor as Resources for the Conceptualisation and Expression of Emotion by Andrew Goatly
• 3. The Deep Lexical Semantics of Emotions by Jerry R. Hobbs and Andrew Gordon
• 4. Genericity and Metaphoricity Both Involve Sense Modulation by Carl Vogel
• 5. Affect Transfer by Metaphor for an Intelligent Conversational Agent by Alan Wallington, Rodrigo Agerri, John Barnden, Mark Lee and Tim Rumbell
• 6. Detecting Uncertainty in Spoken Dialogues: An Explorative Research for the Automatic Detection of Speaker Uncertainty by Using Prosodic Markers by Jeroen Dral, Dirk Heylen and Rieks op den Akker
• 7. Metaphors and Metaphor-like Processes Across Languages: Notes on English and Italian Language of Economics by Maria Teresa Musacchio
• 8. The ‘Return’ and ‘Volatility’ of Sentiments: An Attempt to Quantify the Behaviour of the Markets? by Khurshid Ahmad
• 9 Sentiment Analysis Using Automatically Labelled Financial News Items by Michel Généreux, Thierry Poibeau and Moshe Koppel
• 10 Co-Word Analysis for Assessing Consumer Associations: A Case Study in Market Research by Thorsten Teichert, Gerhard Heyer, Katja Schöntag and Patrick Mairif
• 11 Automating Opinion Analysis in Film Reviews: The Case of Statistic Versus Linguistic Approach by Damien Poirier, Cécile Bothorel, Émilie Guimier De Neef, and Marc Boullé
• Afterword: ‘The Fire Sermon’ by Yorick Wilks. References. .