Toward Plot Units: Automatic Affect State Analysis
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چکیده
We present a system called AESOP that automatically produces affect states associated with characters in a story. This research represents a first step toward the automatic generation of plot unit structures from text. AESOP incorporates several existing sentiment analysis tools and lexicons to evaluate the effectiveness of current sentiment technology on this task. AESOP also includes two novel components: a method for acquiring patient polarity verbs, which impart negative affect on their patients, and affect projection rules to propagate affect tags from surrounding words onto the characters in the story. We evaluate AESOP on a small collection of fables.
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