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Emotion and Cause

Linguistic Theory and Computational Implementation

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Authors:
  1. Sophia Yat Mei Lee

    1. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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  • An important and innovative contribution, combining linguistic knowledge and a computational approach
  • Provides a thorough literature review of emotion analysis in the fields of linguistics, psychology, sociology and computer science
  • Holds great implications not only for the linguistic theory of emotions, but also for the linguistic account of events as well as the automatic detection and classification of emotion in language technology

Part of the book series: Studies in East Asian Linguistics (SEAL)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Towards a Linguistic Theory of Emotion and Expression of Emotion

    • Sophia Yat Mei Lee
    Pages 1-16

  3. The Linguistic Expression of Emotion and Cause in the Chinese Language

    • Sophia Yat Mei Lee
    Pages 17-36

  4. Linguistic Resources for Study of Emotion

    • Sophia Yat Mei Lee
    Pages 37-45

  5. Linguistic Expression of Cause Event I: Transitivity

    • Sophia Yat Mei Lee
    Pages 47-68

  6. Linguistic Expression of Cause Event II: Epistemicity

    • Sophia Yat Mei Lee
    Pages 69-85

  7. A Linguistic Model for Emotion Expression

    • Sophia Yat Mei Lee
    Pages 87-100

  8. Implementation and Verification: Automatic Detection of Emotion Causes

    • Sophia Yat Mei Lee
    Pages 101-142

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 143-151
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About this book

This work argues that cause events, being the most tangible component of emotion, provide a rich dimension of how emotions should be classified. While it is often claimed that emotional concepts cannot be defined, this work views emotion as a response triggered by actual or perceived events, specifically focusing on the interaction between five primary emotions (Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Surprise) and cause events. Cause events are examined in terms of two dimensions, namely transitivity and epistemicity. By incorporating the semantic and syntactic information of emotion cause events, this representation of emotion not only provides deep linguistic criteria of emotion cause events, but also offers an event-based approach to emotion classification. A text-driven, rule-based system for detecting the causes of emotion is then developed to establish the validity of the proposed linguistic model for emotion detection and classification. The system shows promising results.


Authors and Affiliations

  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Sophia Yat Mei Lee

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Emotion and Cause

  • Book Subtitle: Linguistic Theory and Computational Implementation

  • Authors: Sophia Yat Mei Lee

  • Series Title: Studies in East Asian Linguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6194-3

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6192-9Published: 05 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6194-3Published: 23 November 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2522-5103

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-5111

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 151

  • Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics

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