emotionally swinging back
So I am thinking about a million things these days, some related to my work and some not (yes, I'm being deliberately vague ;-) ). But here is one thing that seems to combine both. Checking my emails, there was a call for papers for a wonderful workshop:
International Workshop on Emotion: Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect
which will be held as part of LREC 2006.
Ah.. emotion! Well, before your mind starts wandering away in other directions (like I did), let me assure you that the workshop is for academic purposes :) Actually, the topic is very interesting since there is growing concern about "emotion-oriented systems" which would be able to analyse, express and anticipate emotional reactions in a wide variety of human-machine applications. A key factor in this field is the compilation and analysis of emotion corpora and databases, with the Humaine Emotion-research Network as one good resource for work done in this area.
The workshop as such deals with very interesting questions, including: how can emotional content be described and modelled within a corpus?, which emotion-related features should a corpus describe, and how?, what are the appropriate levels of standardisation?, how can quality be assessed?, in addition to the ethical issues involved in database development and access.
Personally, the most appealing part of the email was this:
"Emotion is reflected in multiple channels - linguistic content, paralinguistic expression, facial expression, eye movement, gesture, gross body movement, manner of action, visceral changes (heart rate, etc), brain states (eeg activity, etc)".
And my mind starts wandering away again.. :)
Mai
International Workshop on Emotion: Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect
which will be held as part of LREC 2006.
Ah.. emotion! Well, before your mind starts wandering away in other directions (like I did), let me assure you that the workshop is for academic purposes :) Actually, the topic is very interesting since there is growing concern about "emotion-oriented systems" which would be able to analyse, express and anticipate emotional reactions in a wide variety of human-machine applications. A key factor in this field is the compilation and analysis of emotion corpora and databases, with the Humaine Emotion-research Network as one good resource for work done in this area.
The workshop as such deals with very interesting questions, including: how can emotional content be described and modelled within a corpus?, which emotion-related features should a corpus describe, and how?, what are the appropriate levels of standardisation?, how can quality be assessed?, in addition to the ethical issues involved in database development and access.
Personally, the most appealing part of the email was this:
"Emotion is reflected in multiple channels - linguistic content, paralinguistic expression, facial expression, eye movement, gesture, gross body movement, manner of action, visceral changes (heart rate, etc), brain states (eeg activity, etc)".
And my mind starts wandering away again.. :)
Mai
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