Corpus-based Analysis of Japanese-English Emotional Expressions

Development of information technology has increased the chances of interaction between human and computer. Understanding not only semantic information but also underlying emotion will make communication with computer more natural and congenial. As preliminary research for emotion estimation from multilingual text, we focused on emotion expressions of Japanese and English and created a corpus with about 1,200 bilingual sentences and tagged emotions on words and sentences. Based on the corpus, we statistically analyzed the characteristics of how emotions were expressed in each language and also the relationships between sentence emotion and word emotion in the sentence. The results show the characteristics of emotion expressions in Japanese and English dialogue sentences.