Who Feels What and Why? Annotation of a Literature Corpus with Semantic Roles of Emotions (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Emotion analysis and classification is a challenging task which has been tackled with relatively straight-forward approaches. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate emotion trigger phrases and entities in the roles of experiencers, targets, and causes of the emotion in literature by Project Gutenberg. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus supports qualitative literary studies and digital humanities. |
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