Semi-automatic emotion recognition from textual input based on the constructed emotion thesaurus

Natural language has attracted importance to some researchers working on Emotion recognizing. Our study focuses on the semi-automatic acquisition technique to obtain the emotion information with the constructed emotion thesaurus we have made. In this paper, we set up a system to recognize the affect sensing from the sentence or the text. During the building processing of our system, we firstly construct a Chinese language emotion thesaurus, the word in which thesaurus has its own classifying (such as commendatory, derogatory sense and neuter and the image value of the corresponding emotion information. Secondly, we set up the system to recognize the object sentence including functions of the syntax analysis, accidence analysis, emotion sensing and emotion computing. The following investigations are presented to show that the concept of "image value" can be used by the constructed system to obtain the emotion information from the sentence based on the constructed emotion thesaurus.