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EmotionML: A new W3C markup language for expression emotions

17 points by bigstorm 16y ago

s2r2 16y ago
<emotion> <category name="This must be a joke"/> <intensity value="1.0"/> </emotion>
- zephyrfalcon 16y ago
  It does look like an April Fool's joke, doesn't it? I had to check the date on the article...
motters 16y ago
This does make sense for use on robots which display some sort of "face" on a screen, or for some chatbots.
Yaggo 16y ago
Looks like a joke, but seems to be real. From the draft: Use cases for EmotionML can be grouped into three broad types: Manual annotation of material involving emotionality, such as annotation of videos, of speech recordings, of faces, of texts, etc; Automatic recognition of emotions from sensors, including physiological sensors, speech recordings, facial expressions, etc., as well as from multi-modal combinations of sensors; Generation of emotion-related system responses, which may involve reasoning about the emotional implications of events, emotional prosody in synthetic speech, facial expressions and gestures of embodied agents or robots, the choice of music and colors of lighting in a room, etc.
mkr-hn 16y ago
The abstract offers what I think is a good reasoning for this. http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-emotionml-20100729/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-emotionml-20100729/
DjDarkman 16y ago
Is it just me or using XML to describe emotions is just stupid.... Even if I pretended this was something to be taken serious, I doubt there is a device that can register emotions or that a psychologist would write this trash instead of forming plain old English sentences.
- wlievens 16y ago
  I'm pretty sure there must be video analysis software out there that's capable of figuring out whether people look angry.
jacquesm 16y ago
This is much more useful and less frivolous than you'd probably think at first glance. Think about it, emotion underlies almost every other medium that we use to communicate, emotions are the most primitive indicators of how a person feels and each and every other medium that we've used to express ourselves in has a way of 'pushing' those emotional buttons somehow. To know which emotional buttons are attached to which part of a piece of writing, a movie, a piece of music and so on can help a lot in both selecting things to fit or counter a mood and it can help in analysing content in an automated way (even if the annotation has to be done by hand).
Samuel_Michon 16y ago
From the article: "There are various emotion category sets, the shortest one being Paul Ekman’s, containing six basic emotions having facial expressions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprised." Tags are fine ofcourse, but how does one go about mapping these to something useful to a user? Images? ASCII emoticons? Lemme take a stab at it: anger >:( digust D8 fear 8-[ happiness :D sadness :'( surprised 8O
mkramlich 16y ago
I got yer W3C emotion markup language right here: :P

17 points by bigstorm 16y ago

s2r2 16y ago

zephyrfalcon 16y ago
It does look like an April Fool's joke, doesn't it? I had to check the date on the article...

motters 16y ago

This does make sense for use on robots which display some sort of "face" on a screen, or for some chatbots.

Yaggo 16y ago

Looks like a joke, but seems to be real. From the draft: Use cases for EmotionML can be grouped into three broad types: Manual annotation of material involving emotionality, such as annotation of videos, of speech recordings, of faces, of texts, etc; Automatic recognition of emotions from sensors, including physiological sensors, speech recordings, facial expressions, etc., as well as from multi-modal combinations of sensors; Generation of emotion-related system responses, which may involve reasoning about the emotional implications of events, emotional prosody in synthetic speech, facial expressions and gestures of embodied agents or robots, the choice of music and colors of lighting in a room, etc.

mkr-hn 16y ago

The abstract offers what I think is a good reasoning for this. http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-emotionml-20100729/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-emotionml-20100729/

DjDarkman 16y ago

Is it just me or using XML to describe emotions is just stupid.... Even if I pretended this was something to be taken serious, I doubt there is a device that can register emotions or that a psychologist would write this trash instead of forming plain old English sentences.

wlievens 16y ago
I'm pretty sure there must be video analysis software out there that's capable of figuring out whether people look angry.

jacquesm 16y ago

This is much more useful and less frivolous than you'd probably think at first glance. Think about it, emotion underlies almost every other medium that we use to communicate, emotions are the most primitive indicators of how a person feels and each and every other medium that we've used to express ourselves in has a way of 'pushing' those emotional buttons somehow. To know which emotional buttons are attached to which part of a piece of writing, a movie, a piece of music and so on can help a lot in both selecting things to fit or counter a mood and it can help in analysing content in an automated way (even if the annotation has to be done by hand).

Samuel_Michon 16y ago

From the article: "There are various emotion category sets, the shortest one being Paul Ekman’s, containing six basic emotions having facial expressions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprised." Tags are fine ofcourse, but how does one go about mapping these to something useful to a user? Images? ASCII emoticons? Lemme take a stab at it: anger >:( digust D8 fear 8-[ happiness :D sadness :'( surprised 8O

mkramlich 16y ago

I got yer W3C emotion markup language right here: :P