EMOTION ANALYZING METHOD, EMOTION ANALYZING SYSTEM, COMPUTER READABLE AND WRITABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND EMOTION ANALYZING DEVICE

• US 20110087483A1
• Filed: 11/30/2009
• Published: 04/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Original Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Inventors: Chou, Shih-Chun, Kao, Chao-Chun, Soo, Von-Wun, Liu, Chun-Chieh, Hsieh, Chang-Tai, Yang, Ting-Hao
• Application Number:
  US12/626,945
• Publication Number:
  US 20110087483A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/237 Lexical tools

Abstract

A system for analyzing a sentence emotion is provided. The system comprises a case repository, an input module, a sentence structure analyzing module, a similarity analyzing module and an emotion detection module. The case repository stores several case sentences and each case sentence comprises at least one major term and is corresponding to at least one emotion annotation. The input module receives an input sentence and the sentence structure analyzing module analyzes a sentence structure of the input sentence. The similarity analyzing module performs a semantic analysis and a syntax analysis according to the sentence structure to obtain a similarity level between the input sentence and each of the case sentences. The emotion detection module detects at least one emotion of the input sentence according to the similarity level between the input sentence and each of the case sentences.

Claims

1. An emotion analyzing system, comprising:

a case repository including a plurality of case sentences, wherein each of the case sentences includes at least a major term and each of the case sentences corresponds to at least an emotion annotation;

an input module for receiving an input sentence;

a sentence analyzing module for analyzing a sentence structure of the input sentence;

a similarity analyzing module for performing a semantic analysis and a syntax analysis on the input sentence and on the at least a case sentence in the case repository, according to the sentence structure, so as to obtain a similarity level between the input sentence and the at least a case sentence; and

an emotion detection module for detecting at least an emotion of the input sentence according to the similarity level between the input sentence and the at least a case sentence.

2. The emotion analyzing system of claim 1, wherein the sentence analyzing module analyzing the sentence structure of the input sentence comprises analyzing a plurality of input terms of the input sentence and annotating each of the input terms a lexical category, and, according to the lexical category each of the input terms belongs to, at least a keyword in the input sentence is determined.

3. The emotion analyzing system of claim 1 further comprising an emotion ontology having a plurality of ontology components;

and wherein the sentence analyzing module analyzing the sentence structure of the input sentence comprises analyzing a plurality of input terms of the input sentence, and, according to the input terms and the ontology components of the emotion ontology, at least a keyword in the input sentence is determined.

4. The emotion analyzing system of claim 1 further comprising a synonym data, an antonym data and an emotion ontology having a plurality of ontology components, wherein the sentence analyzing module analyzing a plurality of input terms of the input sentence, and, according to the input terms of the input sentence, the ontology components of the emotion ontology, the synonym data and the antonym data, at least a keyword in the input sentence is determined.

5. The emotion analyzing system of claim 1 further comprising an emotion ontology having a plurality of ontology components, wherein the sentence analyzing module further determines at least a keyword of the input sentence;

and the syntax analysis of the similarity analyzing module is used to analyze a sentence structure similarity level between the input sentence and the at least a case sentence, and the semantic analysis, according to the emotion ontology, is used to analyze a semantic level between each of the keywords in the input sentence and the major terms of the at least a case sentence; and

, according to the sentence structure similarity level and the semantic level, the emotion detection module obtains the similarity level between the input sentence and the at least a case sentence.

6. The emotion analyzing system of claim 5, wherein the syntax analysis is to compare a parse tree of the input sentence with a structure of the at least a case sentence, and, according to number of editorial steps for re-editing the input sentence to be the at least a case sentence, the sentence structure similarity level is determined.

7. The emotion analyzing system of claim 5, wherein the semantic level is determined by calculating a hierarchical distance, in the emotion ontology, between the ontology components corresponding to the keywords in the input sentence and the ontology components corresponding to the major terms of the case sentence, and wherein the major terms are with respect to the keywords in the input sentence respectively.

8. The emotion analyzing system of claim 1 further comprising an output module outputting an emotion feedback with respect to the detected emotion of the input sentence.

9. An emotion analyzing device, comprising:

a housing;

an input unit configured at an exterior of the housing for receiving an input sentence;

a storage unit configured in an interior of the housing, the storage unit is used for storing a case repository including a plurality of case sentences, and each of the case sentences includes at least a major term and each of the case sentences corresponds to at least an emotion annotation;

a processor configured in the interior of the housing, wherein the processor is connected to the input unit and the storage unit and the processor is used for analyzing a sentence structure of the input sentence, and performing a semantic analysis and a syntax analysis on the input sentence and on at least a case sentence in the case repository, according to the sentence structure, so as to obtain a similarity level between the input sentence and the at least case sentence, and detecting at least an emotion of the input sentence; and

a display unit for displaying an emotion feedback corresponding to the detected emotion.

10. The emotion analyzing device of claim 9, wherein analysis of the sentence structure of the input sentence performed by the processor further comprises:

analyzing a plurality of input terms in the input sentence and annotating each of the input terms a lexical category; and

determining at least a keyword of the input sentence according to the lexical category of each of the input terms.

11. The emotion analyzing device of claim 9, wherein the storage unit further stores an emotion ontology having a plurality of ontology components;

and the analysis of the sentence structure of the input sentence performed by the processor is to analyze a plurality of input terms of the input sentence, and, according to the input terms and the ontology components of the emotion ontology, at least a keyword in the input sentence is determined.

12. The emotion analyzing device of claim 9, wherein the storage unit further stores a synonym data, an antonym data, and an emotion ontology having a plurality of ontology components;

and the processor further analyzes a plurality of input terms of the input sentence, and, according to the input terms of the input sentence, the ontology components of the emotion ontology, the synonym data and the antonym data, at least a keyword in the input sentence is determined.

13. The emotion analyzing device of claim 9, wherein the storage unit further stores an emotion ontology having a plurality of ontology components;

the processor further determines at least a keyword of the input sentence; and

the processor performs the syntax analysis on the input sentence and on the at least a case sentence of the case repository for analyzing a sentence structure similarity level between the input sentence and the at least a case sentence, and the processor performs the semantic analysis, according to the emotion ontology, for analyzing a semantic level between each of the keywords in the input sentence and the major terms of the at least a case sentence; and

, according to the sentence structure similarity level and the semantic level, the processor obtains the similarity level between the input sentence and the at least a case sentence so as to detect the at least an emotion of the input sentence.

14. The emotion analyzing device of claim 13, wherein the syntax analysis is to compare a parse tree of the input sentence with a structure of the at least a case sentence, and, according to number of editorial steps for re-editing the input sentence to be the at least a case sentence, the sentence structure similarity level is determined.

15. The emotion analyzing device of claim 13, wherein the semantic level is determined by calculating a hierarchical distance, in the emotion ontology, between the ontology components corresponding to the keywords in the input sentence and the ontology components corresponding to the major terms of the case sentence, and wherein the major terms are with respect to the keywords in the input sentence respectively.

16. An emotion analyzing method implemented with a case repository, wherein the case repository includes a plurality of case sentences, and each of the case sentences includes at least a major term and each of the case sentences corresponds to at least an emotion annotation, the emotion analyzing method comprising:

receiving an input sentence;

analyzing a sentence structure of the input sentence;

performing a similarity analyzing process to simultaneously implement a semantic analysis and a syntax analysis on the input sentence and on at least a case sentence in the case repository, according to the sentence structure, so as to obtain a similarity level between the input sentence and the at least case sentence; and

detecting at least an emotion of the input sentence according to the similarity level between the input sentence and the at least case sentence.

17. The emotion analyzing method of claim 16, wherein the step of analyzing the sentence structure of the input sentence comprises analyzing a plurality of input terms of the input sentence and annotating each of the input terms a lexical category, and, according to the lexical category each of the input terms belongs to, determining at least a keyword in the input sentence.

18. The emotion analyzing method of claim 16 further comprising providing an emotion ontology, wherein the emotion ontology has a plurality of ontology components;

and wherein the step of analyzing the sentence structure of the input sentence comprises analyzing a plurality of input terms of the input sentence, and, according to the input terms and the ontology components of the emotion ontology, determining at least a keyword in the input sentence.

19. The emotion analyzing method of claim 16, wherein the step of analyzing the sentence structure of the input sentence comprises providing a synonym data, an antonym data, and an emotion ontology having a plurality of ontology components, and analyzing a plurality of input terms of the input sentence, and, according to the input terms of the input sentence, the ontology components of the emotion ontology, the synonym data and the antonym data, determining at least a keyword in the input sentence.

20. The emotion analyzing method of claim 16, wherein the step of analyzing the sentence structure of the input sentence further comprises providing an emotion ontology having a plurality of ontology components;

determining at least a keyword of the input sentence;

the syntax analysis is to analyze a sentence structure similarity level between the input sentence and the at least a case sentence, and the semantic analysis, according to the emotion ontology, is to analyze a semantic level between each of the keywords in the input sentence and the major terms of the at least a case sentence; and

, according to the sentence structure similarity level and the semantic level, the similarity level between the input sentence and the at least a case sentence is obtained.

21. The emotion analyzing method of claim 20, wherein the syntax analysis is to compare a parse tree of the input sentence with a structure of the at least a case sentence, and, according to number of editorial steps for re-editing the input sentence to be the at least a case sentence, the sentence structure similarity level is determined.

22. The emotion analyzing method of claim 20, wherein the semantic level is determined by calculating a hierarchical distance, in the emotion ontology, between the ontology components corresponding to the keywords in the input sentence and the ontology components corresponding to the major terms of the case sentence, and wherein the major terms are with respect to the keywords in the input sentence respectively.

23. The emotion analyzing method of claim 16 further comprising outputting an emotion feedback with respect to the detected emotion of the input sentence.

24. A computer readable and writable recording medium for storing an emotion analyzing program and a case repository, wherein the case repository includes a plurality of case sentences, and each of the case sentences includes at least a major term and each of the case sentences corresponds to at least an emotion annotation, and the emotion analyzing program executes a plurality of commands, and the commands comprising:

receiving an input sentence;

analyzing a sentence structure of the input sentence;

performing a similarity analyzing process to simultaneously implement a semantic analysis and a syntax analysis on the input sentence and on at least a case sentence in the case repository, according to the sentence structure, so as to obtain a similarity level between the input sentence and the at least case sentence; and

detecting at least an emotion of the input sentence according to the similarity level between the input sentence and the at least case sentence.