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Introduction to emotion recognition in text

Emotions govern our daily lives; they are a big part of the human experience, and inevitably they affect our decision-making. We tend to repeat actions that make us feel happy, but we avoid those that make us angry or sad.

Information spreads quickly via the Internet — a big part of it as text — and as we know, emotions tend to intensify if left undealt with.

Thanks to natural language processing, this subjective information can be extracted from written sources such as reviews, recommendations, publications on social media, transcribed conversations, etc., allowing us to understand the emotions expressed by the author of the text and therefore act accordingly.

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TASS 2018: Fostering Research on Semantic Analysis in Spanish

MeaningCloud and University of Jaen have been the organizers of TASS, the Workshop on Semantic Analysis in Spanish language at SEPLN (International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing), again in 2018.

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During the years, the research has extended to other tasks related to the processing of the semantics of texts that attempt to further improve natural language understanding systems. Apart from sentiment analysis, other tasks attracting the interest of the research community are stance classification, negation handling, rumor identification, fake news identification, open information extraction, argumentation mining, classification of semantic relations, and question answering of non-factoid questions, to name a few.

TASS 2018 was the 7th event of the series and was held in conjunction with the 34rd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, in Seville (Spain), on September 18th, 2018. Four research tasks were proposed. MeaningCloud sponsored this edition with prizes for the best systems in each of the tasks. A comprehensive description paper is (to be) published in Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural journal, vol 62: TASS 2018: The Strength of Deep Learning in Language Understanding Tasks.

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