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Weighting Assessment of the Effect of Chinese State-Changing Words on Emotions
Chia-Yueh Chang1, Meng-Ning Tsai1, Yao-Ting Sung1,2,3,4,5
1Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Education College Building, Room 612, No. 162, Sec. 1, Heping E. Rd., Da-an District, Taipei City, 10610, Taiwan, ROC.
Abstract:
Past studies of sentiment analysis have mainly applied algorithms based on vocabulary categories and emotional characteristics to detect the emotionality of text. However, the collocation of state-changing words and emotional vocabulary affects emotions. For example, adverbs of degree strengthen emotions, and negative adverbs reverse emotions. This study investigated the weighted effect of state-changing words on emotion. The research material comprised 73 state-changing words that were collocated with four emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and anger. A total of 84 participants participated in the vocabulary assessment. The results revealed that state-changing words could be classified into four types: intensifying, weakening, neutralizing, and reversing. In a comparison of the weighting factors among emotions, the weighting effect of the same state-changing word in the positive emotion category was particularly evident. The results could serve as a reference for follow-up studies on detecting emotions in text.
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