La sentiment analysis come strumento di studio del parlato emozionale?

Vari studi in letteratura hanno dimostrato che il parlato emozionale è caratterizzato da vari indici acustici. Tuttavia, tali studi hanno quasi sempre utilizzato parlato recitato, ignorando il parlato elicitato in maniera ecologica a causa della difficoltà nel reperire adeguate produzioni emozionali. In questo contributo, esploriamo la possibilità di utilizzare la sentiment analysis per selezionare produzioni emozionali da corpora orali. Abbiamo utilizzato il corpus LibriSpeech, da cui abbiamo estratto valori di sentiment analysis a livello di frase e di parola, nonché vari indici acustici e spettrali associati al parlato emozionale. L’analisi della relazione tra i livelli acustico e testuale ha rivelato effetti significativi ma di portata ridotta. Questo ci fa pensare che tali due livelli (acustico e lessicale) tendano a essere relativamente indipendenti, rendendo inappropriato l’utilizzo di metriche testuali per la selezione di materiale acusticamente emozionale.Abundant literature has shown that emotional speech is characterized by various acoustic cues. However, most studies focused on sentences produced by actors, disregarding ecologically elicited speech due to difficulties in finding suitable emotional data. In this contribution we explore the possibility of using sentiment analysis for the selection of emotional chunks from speech corpora. We used the LibriSpeech corpus and extracted sentiment analysis scores at word and sentence levels, as well as several acoustic and spectral parameters of emotional voice. The analysis of the relation between textual and acoustic indices revealed significant but small effects. This suggests that these two levels tend to be fairly independent, making it improper to use sentiment analysis for the selection of acoustically emotional speech

Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2018 : 10-12 December 2018, Torino

On behalf of the Program Committee, a very warm welcome to the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-­‐it 2018). This edition of the conference is held in Torino. The conference is locally organised by the University of Torino and hosted into its prestigious main lecture hall “Cavallerizza Reale”. The CLiC-­‐it conference series is an initiative of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC) which, after five years of activity, has clearly established itself as the premier national forum for research and development in the fields of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, where leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry meet to share their research results, experiences, and challenges

Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2018

On behalf of the Program Committee, a very warm welcome to the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-­‐it 2018). This edition of the conference is held in Torino. The conference is locally organised by the University of Torino and hosted into its prestigious main lecture hall “Cavallerizza Reale”. The CLiC-­‐it conference series is an initiative of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC) which, after five years of activity, has clearly established itself as the premier national forum for research and development in the fields of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, where leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry meet to share their research results, experiences, and challenges