Word Affect Intensities

Understand

Words often convey affect -- emotions, feelings, and attitudes.

• Further, different words can convey affect to various degrees (intensities).
• However, existing manually created lexicons for basic emotions (such as anger and fear) indicate only coarse categories of affect association (for example, associated with anger or not associated with anger).
• Automatic lexicons of affect provide fine degrees of association, but they tend not to be accurate as human-created lexicons.