Beyond Sentiment Analysis: A Review of Recent Trends in Text Based Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Detection

Sentiment Analysis is probably one of the best-known area in text mining. However, in recent years, as big data rose in popularity more areas of text classification are being explored. Perhaps the next task to catch on is emotion detection, the task of identifying emotions. This is because emotions are the finer grained information which could be extracted from opinions. So besides writer sentiments, writer emotion is also a valuable data. Emotion detection can be done using text, facial expressions, verbal communications and brain waves; however, the focus of this review is on text-based sentiment analysis and emotion detection. The internet has provided an avenue for the public to express their opinions easily. These expressions not only contain positive or negative sentiments, it contains emotions as well. These emotions can help in social behaviour analysis, decision and policy makings for companies and the country. Emotion detection can further support other tasks such as opinion mining and early depression detection. This review provides a comprehensive analysis of the shift in recent trends from text sentiment analysis to emotion detection and the challenges in these tasks. We summarize some of the recent works in the last five years and look at the methods they used. We also look at the models of emotion classes that are generally referenced. The trend of text-based emotion detection has shifted from the early keyword-based comparisons to machine learning and deep learning algorithms that provide more flexibility to the task and better performance

Real-Time Monitoring and Assessment System with Facial Landmark Estimation for Emotional Recognition in Work

The Model for Monitoring and Regulating Emotional States in the Work Environment based on Neural Networks and Emotion Recognition Algorithms presents an innovative approach to enhancing employee well-being and productivity by leveraging advanced technologies. This paper on the development of a system that utilizes neural networks and emotion recognition algorithms to monitor and interpret emotional cues exhibited by individuals in real-time within the work environment. With the uses of novel Directional Marker Controlled Facial Landmark (DMCFL) Emotion recognition algorithms are employed to analyze facial expressions, speech patterns, physiological data, and text-based communication to infer the emotional state of employees. Neural networks are then utilized to process this data and provide more sophisticated emotion classification and prediction. The emotional states are classified with the integrated Regression Logistics Classifier (RLC) model for classification. The analysis of the findings expressed that the real-time monitoring enables employers and supervisors to gain insights into the emotional well-being of employees, identifying patterns and potential issues. The system facilitates feedback and regulation mechanisms, allowing for personalized interventions and support tailored to individual emotional needs

深層学習に基づくテキスト感情分析に関する研究

Textual emotion recognition (TER) is the process of automatically identifying emotional states in textual expressions. It is a more in-depth analysis than sentiment analysis. Owing to its significant academic and commercial potential, TER has become an essential topic in the field of NLP. Over the past few years, although considerable progress has been conducted in TER, there are still some difficulties and challenges because of the nature of human emotion complexity. This thesis explores emotional information by incorporating external knowledge, learning emotion correlation, and building effective TER architectures. The main contributions of this thesis are summarized as follows: (1) To make up for the limitation of imbalanced training data, this thesis proposes a multi-stream neural network that incorporates background knowledge for text classification. To better fuse background knowledge into the basal network, different fusion strategies are employed among multi-streams. The experimental results demonstrate that, as the knowledge supplement, the background knowledge-based features can make up for the information neglected or absented in basal text classification network, especially for imbalance corpus. (2) To realize contextual emotion learning, this thesis proposes a hierarchical network with label embedding. This network hierarchically encodes the given sentence based on its contextual information. Besides, an auxiliary label embedding matrix is trained for emotion correlation learning with an assembled training objective, contributing to final emotion correlation-based prediction. The experimental results show that the proposed method contributes to emotional feature learning and contextual emotion recognition. (3) To realize multi-label emotion recognition and emotion correlation learning, this thesis proposed a Multiple-label Emotion Detection Architecture (MEDA). MEDA comprises two modules: Multi-Channel Emotion-Specified Feature Extractor (MC-ESFE) and Emotion Correlation Learner (ECorL). MEDA captures underlying emotion-specified features with MC-ESFE module in advance. With underlying features, emotion correlation learning is implemented through an emotion sequence predicter in ECorL module. Furthermore, to incorporate emotion correlation information into model training, multi-label focal loss is proposed for multi-label learning. The proposed model achieved satisfactory performance and outperformed state-of-the-art models on both RenCECps and NLPCC2018 datasets, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method for multi-label emotion detection

Crowdsourcing a Word-Emotion Association Lexicon

Even though considerable attention has been given to the polarity of words (positive and negative) and the creation of large polarity lexicons, research in emotion analysis has had to rely on limited and small emotion lexicons. In this paper we show how the combined strength and wisdom of the crowds can be used to generate a large, high-quality, word-emotion and word-polarity association lexicon quickly and inexpensively. We enumerate the challenges in emotion annotation in a crowdsourcing scenario and propose solutions to address them. Most notably, in addition to questions about emotions associated with terms, we show how the inclusion of a word choice question can discourage malicious data entry, help identify instances where the annotator may not be familiar with the target term (allowing us to reject such annotations), and help obtain annotations at sense level (rather than at word level). We conducted experiments on how to formulate the emotion-annotation questions, and show that asking if a term is associated with an emotion leads to markedly higher inter-annotator agreement than that obtained by asking if a term evokes an emotion

A model for providing emotion awareness and feedback using fuzzy logic in online learning

Monitoring users’ emotive states and using that information for providing feedback and scaffolding is crucial. In the learning context, emotions can be used to increase students’ attention as well as to improve memory and reasoning. In this context, tutors should be prepared to create affective learning situations and encourage collaborative knowledge construction as well as identify those students’ feelings which hinder learning process. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to label affective behavior in educational discourse based on fuzzy logic, which enables a human or virtual tutor to capture students’ emotions, make students aware of their own emotions, assess these emotions and provide appropriate affective feedback. To that end, we propose a fuzzy classifier that provides a priori qualitative assessment and fuzzy qualifiers bound to the amounts such as few, regular and many assigned by an affective dictionary to every word. The advantage of the statistical approach is to reduce the classical pollution problem of training and analyzing the scenario using the same dataset. Our approach has been tested in a real online learning environment and proved to have a very positive influence on students’ learning performance.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Affective Medicine: a review of Affective Computing efforts in Medical Informatics

Background: Affective computing (AC) is concerned with emotional interactions performed with and through computers. It is defined as “computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotions”. AC enables investigation and understanding of the relation between human emotions and health as well as application of assistive and useful technologies in the medical domain. Objectives: 1) To review the general state of the art in AC and its applications in medicine, and 2) to establish synergies between the research communities of AC and medical informatics. Methods: Aspects related to the human affective state as a determinant of the human health are discussed, coupled with an illustration of significant AC research and related literature output. Moreover, affective communication channels are described and their range of application fields is explored through illustrative examples. Results: The presented conferences, European research projects and research publications illustrate the recent increase of interest in the AC area by the medical community. Tele-home healthcare, AmI, ubiquitous monitoring, e-learning and virtual communities with emotionally expressive characters for elderly or impaired people are few areas where the potential of AC has been realized and applications have emerged. Conclusions: A number of gaps can potentially be overcome through the synergy of AC and medical informatics. The application of AC technologies parallels the advancement of the existing state of the art and the introduction of new methods. The amount of work and projects reviewed in this paper witness an ambitious and optimistic synergetic future of the affective medicine field

Identification of Mental States and Interpersonal Functioning in Borderline Personality Disorder

Atypical identification of mental states in the self and others has been proposed to underlie interpersonal difficulties in borderline personality disorder (BPD), yet no previous empirical research has directly examined associations between these constructs. We examine 3 mental state identification measures and their associations with experience-sampling measures of interpersonal functioning in participants with BPD relative to a healthy comparison (HC) group. We also included a clinical comparison group diagnosed with avoidant personality disorder (APD) to test the specificity of this constellation of difficulties to BPD. When categorizing blended emotional expressions, the BPD group identified anger at a lower threshold than did the HC and APD groups, but no group differences emerged in the threshold for identifying happiness. These results are consistent with enhanced social threat identification and not general negativity biases in BPD. The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) showed no group differences in general mental state identification abilities. Alexithymia scores were higher in both BPD and APD relative to the HC group, and difficulty identifying one’s own emotions was higher in BPD compared to APD and HC. Within the BPD group, lower RMET scores were associated with lower anger identification thresholds and higher alexithymia scores. Moreover, lower anger identification thresholds, lower RMET scores, and higher alexithymia scores were all associated with greater levels of interpersonal difficulties in daily life. Research linking measures of mental state identification with experience-sampling measures of interpersonal functioning can help clarify the role of mental state identification in BPD symptoms