emolib.eks.anlw
Class EmotionalKeywordSpotterANLW

java.lang.Object
  emolib.util.proc.TextDataProcessor
      emolib.eks.EmotionalKeywordSpotter
          emolib.eks.anlw.EmotionalKeywordSpotterANLW

All Implemented Interfaces:

Configurable, DataProcessor

public class EmotionalKeywordSpotterANLW
extends EmotionalKeywordSpotter

The EmotionalKeywordSpotterANLW class performs the Emotional Keyword Spotting (EKS) process using the Affective Norms Language Words (ANLW) dictionary.

This class accepts a configuration parameter that indicates the absolute path of the location of an ANLW dictionary in the file system of the user's computer. Since these dictionaries have the same structure, the term Language has been introduced to wrap English and Spanish.

ANLW contains 1034 stemmed words evaluated for the three emotional dimensions: valence, activation and control. These evaluations range from 0 to 10 in this work. Also, the words are grammatically labelled in order to disambiguate the cases where conflation occurs. In this case, the weight configuration parameter determines the amount of contribution that, despite the conflation, is allowed in the affect computation.

The dictionary is first loaded into the system to then be used to map the incoming stemmed words to the word stems that contains, thus extracting the emotional dimensions and enabling the rest of the system to compute the general affect being expressed. If the stemmed words matched correspond to synonyms of the original word, then a weighting parameter is allowed through the configuration file.

If for the word in question, despite having emotional content, no appropriate emotional dimensions are found, then a default neutral value is assigned to each of the dimensions. This value corresponds to a parameter available through the configuration file.

Author:

Alexandre Trilla (atrilla@salle.url.edu)

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	PROP_CONFLATION_WEIGHT
static java.lang.String	PROP_DICTIONARY The name of the property indicating the location of the ANLW dictionary.
static java.lang.String	PROP_SYNONYMS_WEIGHT
static java.lang.String	PROP_WORD_NOT_FOUND

Constructor Summary

EmotionalKeywordSpotterANLW()
Main constructor of the EmotionalKeywordSpotterANLW.

Method Summary

void	applyEKS(TextData inputTextDataObject) Method to perform the EKS process.
void	initialize() Method to initialize the EmotionalKeywordSpotterANLW.
void	newProperties(PropertySheet ps) This method is called when this configurable component has new data.
void	register(java.lang.String name, Registry registry) Register my properties.

Methods inherited from class emolib.eks.EmotionalKeywordSpotter

getData

Methods inherited from class emolib.util.proc.TextDataProcessor

flush, getName, getPredecessor, setPredecessor, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

PROP_DICTIONARY

public static final java.lang.String PROP_DICTIONARY

The name of the property indicating the location of the ANLW dictionary.

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Constant Field Values

PROP_CONFLATION_WEIGHT

public static final java.lang.String PROP_CONFLATION_WEIGHT

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Constant Field Values

PROP_SYNONYMS_WEIGHT

public static final java.lang.String PROP_SYNONYMS_WEIGHT

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Constant Field Values

PROP_WORD_NOT_FOUND

public static final java.lang.String PROP_WORD_NOT_FOUND

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Constructor Detail

EmotionalKeywordSpotterANLW

public EmotionalKeywordSpotterANLW()

Main constructor of the EmotionalKeywordSpotterANLW.

Method Detail

register

public void register(java.lang.String name,
                     Registry registry)
              throws PropertyException

Description copied from interface: Configurable

Register my properties. This method is called once early in the time of the component, shortly after the component is constructed. This component should register any configuration properties that it needs to register. If this configurable extends another configurable, super.register should also be called

Specified by:

register in interface Configurable

Overrides:

register in class EmotionalKeywordSpotter

Parameters:

name - the name of the component

registry - the registry for this component

Throws:

PropertyException

newProperties

public void newProperties(PropertySheet ps)
                   throws PropertyException

Description copied from interface: Configurable

This method is called when this configurable component has new data. The component should first validate the data. If it is bad the component should return false. If the data is good, the component should record the the data internally and return true.

Specified by:

newProperties in interface Configurable

Overrides:

newProperties in class EmotionalKeywordSpotter

Parameters:

ps - a property sheet holding the new data

Throws:

PropertyException - if there is a problem with the properties.

initialize

public void initialize()

Method to initialize the EmotionalKeywordSpotterANLW.

Specified by:

initialize in interface DataProcessor

Overrides:

initialize in class EmotionalKeywordSpotter

applyEKS

public void applyEKS(TextData inputTextDataObject)

Method to perform the EKS process. If the word stem of the affective dictionary is produced by the same POS as the word in question, the emotional dimentions are direct, otherwise they are weighed due to the conflation effect.

Specified by:

applyEKS in class EmotionalKeywordSpotter

Parameters:

inputTextDataObject - The TextData object to process.