Don’t worry about metaphor: Affect extraction for conversational agents

Catherine Smith; Tim Rumbell; John Barnden; Bob Hendley; Mark Lee; Alan Wallington

Don’t worry about metaphor: Affect extraction for conversational agents

Catherine Smith, Tim Rumbell, John Barnden^*, Bob Hendley, Mark Lee, Alan Wallington

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Abstract

We demonstrate one aspect of an affect-extraction system for use in intelligent conversational agents. This aspect performs a degree of affective interpretation of some types of metaphorical utterance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	37-40
Number of pages	4
Journal	Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2007 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 25 Jun 2007 → 27 Jun 2007

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Funding Information:
The research has been aided by Sheila Glasbey and Li Zhang, and supported by ESRC/EPSRC/DTI Pac-cit LINK grant (ESRC RES-328-25-0009) and EP-SRC grant EP/C538943/1.

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© 2007 Association for Computational Linguistics

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Computer Science Applications
Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics

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