CEFER: A Four Facets Framework based on Context and Emotion embedded features for Implicit and Explicit Emotion Recognition

People's conduct and reactions are driven by their emotions. Online social media is becoming a great instrument for expressing emotions in written form. Paying attention to the context and the entire sentence help us to detect emotion from texts. However, this perspective inhibits us from noticing some emotional words or phrases in the text, particularly when the words express an emotion implicitly rather than explicitly. On the other hand, focusing only on the words and ignoring the context results in a distorted understanding of the sentence meaning and feeling. In this paper, we propose a framework that analyses text at both the sentence and word levels. We name it CEFER (Context and Emotion embedded Framework for Emotion Recognition). Our four approach facets are to extracting data by considering the entire sentence and each individual word simultaneously, as well as implicit and explicit emotions. The knowledge gained from these data not only mitigates the impact of flaws in the preceding approaches but also it strengthens the feature vector. We evaluate several feature spaces using BERT family and design the CEFER based on them. CEFER combines the emotional vector of each word, including explicit and implicit emotions, with the feature vector of each word based on context. CEFER performs better than the BERT family. The experimental results demonstrate that identifying implicit emotions are more challenging than detecting explicit emotions. CEFER, improves the accuracy of implicit emotion recognition. According to the results, CEFER perform 5% better than the BERT family in recognizing explicit emotions and 3% in implicit.

A Human-Centric Approach to Group-Based Context-Awareness

The emerging need for qualitative approaches in context-aware information processing calls for proper modeling of context information and efficient handling of its inherent uncertainty resulted from human interpretation and usage. Many of the current approaches to context-awareness either lack a solid theoretical basis for modeling or ignore important requirements such as modularity, high-order uncertainty management and group-based context-awareness. Therefore, their real-world application and extendability remains limited. In this paper, we present f-Context as a service-based context-awareness framework, based on language-action perspective (LAP) theory for modeling. Then we identify some of the complex, informational parts of context which contain high-order uncertainties due to differences between members of the group in defining them. An agent-based perceptual computer architecture is proposed for implementing f-Context that uses computing with words (CWW) for handling uncertainty. The feasibility of f-Context is analyzed using a realistic scenario involving a group of mobile users. We believe that the proposed approach can open the door to future research on context-awareness by offering a theoretical foundation based on human communication, and a service-based layered architecture which exploits CWW for context-aware, group-based and platform-independent access to information systems.