Emotion Detection by Using Similarity Techniques

The analysis of emotions and opinions is a new research field that is aimed to identify opinions, feelings, assessments, behaviors, tendencies and emotions of people expressed in texts. The growing importance of emotion analysis has coincided with the growth of social media, such as surveys, forums, blogs, twitter and social networks. Emotional analysis systems are used in almost all businesses and social fields, because opinions and emotions are important for all human activities and have a serious impact on people's behaviours. In this paper, we discuss detecting and analyzing emotions based on similarity using VSM and STASIS methods. In comparison with keyword based method VSM has provided better results.