Emotion estimation of Wakamono Kotoba based on distance of word emotional vector

Recently, there are many research that aim at estimating emotion from text. The meaning of language expression that we use in daily life varies depending on the context used. In that sense, language expression conveys ambiguous information. Wakamono Kotoba are words used by young people, and they also have semantic ambiguity. Most of the Wakamono Kotoba are not registered in the existing dictionaries, making it difficult for a system to recognize the meaning of Wakamono Kotoba. In this paper, we propose a method for estimating emotion in Wakamono Kotoba that were not registered in the system, by using Wakamono Kotoba example sentences as features. The proposed method applied Earth Mover´s Distance to vector of words. As a result of the evaluation experiment, higher estimation accuracy was obtained by considering emotional distance between words - an approach that had not been used in the conventional research - than by using only word importance value.