[alicebot-general] Natural Language Processing and emotions

[Chris Lofting]

Hi Nicola,

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> Subject: [alicebot-general] Natural Language Processing and emotions
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> Hi all
> 
> I would like to know if there are any possibilities to determine
> emotions for given sentences with Computational Linguistics/Natural
> Language Processing. Is there any known solution for this pattern? It
> should not just be an AIML file where every sentence got a static
> emotion code. 

Firstly you need the categories for primary emotions:
 (http://members.iimetro.com.au/~lofting/emote.html )

Then you need the categories for secondary emotions - i.e. those dependent
on the presence of a sense of SELF (these emotions develop with that sense
over the first 24 months of life)

Then you need the concepts (rules of engagement) of emotional
stimulus/response OR you can build such using a random generator of
emotional colourings and develop 'best fit' rules from there OR do what
infants to - return the emotion presented as stimulus.

In basic interactions, especially those requiring rapid assessments, the
instincts/habits try to identify sameness within a difference. Education
then refines these through exposure to differences; the less education, the
less understanding of differences, the more expression that is based on
stereotyping etc etc.

Emotional expression is strongly associated with magnitudes and the
symmetric. This can be a problem with logic in that emotions can allow for
such illogical categories such as 'this man is evil' -> all men are evil ->
the label 'men' and 'evil' are interchangeable (and so the symmetry focus).

It is the ASYMMETRIC that allows us to 'calm the waters' through clear
identification of local context differences and so the particular. You can
see this sort of thing at work in such experiments as the "Emotional I
Ching" - http://members.iimetro.com.au/~lofting/myweb/EmotionalIC.html

In this work we can identify consciousness/reason censoring emotional
expressions due to the expression being inappropriate (social rules) or
unfounded in that consciousness picks up details that emotion cannot
not/does not detect.

I would suggest the references in the above page on emotions (emote.html)
and in particular Plutchik's work.

For the development of SELF-dependent emotions look up material on the
development of SELF and such emotions as embarrassment and issues of guilt
(personal) vs shame (social) etc.

Since emotions are more often associated with the unconscious so come issues
of dealing with refined expressions through implicit forms - images etc in
that communication with the unconscious is by implicit means and moves us
into consideration of innuendo etc.

The Emotional IC uses the images of the I Ching that reflect the emotions
assessment of a situation in that the isomorphism between emotion and the I
Ching is in the method used to derive the basic categories -
self-referencing. Thus self-referencing of fight/flight and yang/yin will
establish generic categories across both specialist perspectives (working
off the concept that all meaning is determined by the method used to derive
it - thus differences are in the LABELS rather than the underlying
categories - the universals presented in
http://members.iimetro.com.au/~lofting/myweb/introIDM.html )


Chris
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generic categories of meaning:
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Objects bias (differentiating):
BLEND - wholeness, whole numbers
BOUND - partness, rational numbers
Relationships bias (integrating):
BOND - share space, irrational numbers
BIND - share time, imaginary numbers

>From these come composites as reals, complex, quaternions, octonions. All
else follows....
http://members.iimetro.com.au/~lofting/myweb/introIDM.html