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Automatic Annotation of Characters’ Emotions in Stories

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2015)

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The emotional states of the characters allow the audience to understand their motivations and feel empathy for their reactions to the story incidents. Consequently, the annotation of characters’ emotions in narratives is highly relevant for story indexing and retrieval but also editing and analysis. In this paper, we address the construction of tools for the annotation of characters’ emotions in stories, opening the way to the construction of a corpus of narratives annotated with emotions.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and CIRMA, University of Torino, Turin, Italy

    Vincenzo Lombardo, Rossana Damiano & Cristina Battaglino

  2. Department of Humanities and CIRMA, University of Torino, Turin, Italy

    Antonio Pizzo

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Lombardo, V., Damiano, R., Battaglino, C., Pizzo, A. (2015). Automatic Annotation of Characters’ Emotions in Stories. In: Schoenau-Fog, H., Bruni, L., Louchart, S., Baceviciute, S. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9445. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_11

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