Don't worry about metaphor: affect detection for conversational agents

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  • Catherine Smith
  • Timothy H. Rumbell
  • John A. Barnden
  • Robert J. Hendley
  • Mark G. Lee
  • Alan M. Wallington
  • Li Zhang
چکیده

We demonstrate one aspect of an affectextraction system for use in intelligent conversational agents. This aspect performs a degree of affective interpretation of some types of metaphorical utterance.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007