Detecting the tone or emotive content of a text message is increasingly important in many natural language processing applications. Examples of such applications are rating new books or movies or products, judging the mood of a customer e-mail and routing it accordingly, measuring reputation that a person or a product has in the blogosphere. While for the English language there exists a number ...

The detection of conflict between incompatible impulses, thoughts, and actions is a ubiquitous source of motivation across theories of goal-directed action. In this overview, we explore the hypothesis that conflict is emotive, integrating perspectives from affective science and cognitive neuroscience. Initially, we review evidence suggesting that the mental and biological processes that monitor...

LUCIA is an MPEG-4 facial animation system developed at ISTC-CNR.. It works on standard Facial Animation Parameters and speaks with the Italian version of FESTIVAL TTS. To achieve an emotive/expressive talking head LUCIA was build from real human data physically extracted by ELITE optotracking movement analyzer. LUCIA can copy a real human by reproducing the movements of passive markers positio...

Professional development in schools is often conducted to assist teachers in curriculum, instruction, and general pedagogy. Little emphasis is placed on social-emotional issues experienced by teachers, although high levels of stress and burnout are common. School counselors are in an ideal position to support teachers by providing consultation focused on social-emotional health. This qualitativ...

Harada (1976) identifies honorifics as one of “the salient features of the Japanese language” (p. 500) and provides an extensive overview of pressing syntactic issues surrounding this system. But he remains noncommittal about the semantic contribution of these morphemes; the question of what honorifics mean, what they contribute to a discourse, is left unanswered. The present paper offers an an...

Little or no research has been done on the emotional state of persons, groups, or nations using web based data. This leaves a large void in our understanding of basic human characteristics and their relation to economic and other outcomes. A key ingredient to making progress in these areas is to develop an emotion specific lexicon that can be used to select relevant online texts and that can be...

It has been argued that attitude verbs shift reference of indexicals in the embedded clauses in some languages (Schlenker 1999, 2003; Anand and Nevins 2004). I argue that not only overt attitude predicates but implicit emotive modality is a context shifting operator which changes context parameters. I base my argument on the following three mono-clausal constructions: i) fake past; ii) fake pre...

LUCIA is an MPEG-4 facial animation system developed at ISTCCNR1. It works on standard Facial Animation Parameters and speaks with the Italian version of FESTIVAL TTS. To achieve an emotive/expressive talking head LUCIA was build from real human data physically extracted by ELITE optotracking movement analyzer. LUCIA can copy a real human by reproducing the movements of passive markers position...

This study investigated the effectiveness of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in improving retirees’ attitude towards political participation. Twenty four retirees (mean age = 55.50 years) within Ilorin, Nigeria participated in the study. They were randomly assigned to one treatment and one control groups. A validated instrument termed “Retirees’ Attitude towards Political Participation Quest...

The existence of emotion and cognition as two interacting systems, both with important roles in decision-making, has been recently advocated by neurophysiological research (LeDoux, 1998, Damasio, 1994). Following that idea, this paper presents the ALEC agent architecture which has both emotive and cognitive learning, as well as emotive and cognitive decision-making capabilities to adapt to real...