Construction of a Blog Emotion Corpus for Chinese Emotional Expression Analysis

There is plenty of evidence that emotion analysis has many valuable applications. In this study a blog emotion corpus is constructed for Chinese emotional expression analysis. This corpus contains manual annotation of eight emotional categories (expect, joy, love, surprise, anxiety, sorrow, angry and hate), emotion intensity, emotion holder/target, emotional word/phrase, degree word, negative word, conjunction, rhetoric, punctuation and other linguistic expressions that indicate emotion. Annotation agreement analyses for emotion classes and emotional words and phrases are described. Then, using this corpus, we explore emotion expressions in Chinese and present the analyses on them.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: EMNLP
• Authors: Changqin Quan, Fuji Ren
• Keywords: Blog Emotion Corpus, EMNLP 2009, Emotion, Emotional, Natural Language Processing