Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis

Introduction: Affect Computing and Sentiment Analysis. References.- 1. Understanding Metaphors: The Paradox of Unlike Things Compared by Sam Glucksberg.- 2. Metaphor as Resources for the Conceptualisation and Expression of Emotion by Andrew Goatly.- 3. The Deep Lexical Semantics of Emotions by Jerry R. Hobbs and Andrew Gordon.- 4. Genericity and Metaphoricity Both Involve Sense Modulation by Carl Vogel.- 5. Affect Transfer by Metaphor for an Intelligent Conversational Agent by Alan Wallington, Rodrigo Agerri, John Barnden, Mark Lee and Tim Rumbell.- 6. Detecting Uncertainty in Spoken Dialogues: An Explorative Research for the Automatic Detection of Speaker Uncertainty by Using Prosodic Markers by Jeroen Dral, Dirk Heylen and Rieks op den Akker.- 7. Metaphors and Metaphor-like Processes Across Languages: Notes on English and Italian Language of Economics by Maria Teresa Musacchio.- 8. The ‘Return’ and ‘Volatility’ of Sentiments: An Attempt to Quantify the Behaviour of the Markets? byKhurshid Ahmad.- 9 Sentiment Analysis Using Automatically Labelled Financial News Items by Michel Généreux, Thierry Poibeau and Moshe Koppel.- 10 Co-Word Analysis for Assessing Consumer Associations: A Case Study in Market Research by Thorsten Teichert, Gerhard Heyer, Katja Schöntag and Patrick Mairif.- 11 Automating Opinion Analysis in Film Reviews: The Case of Statistic Versus Linguistic Approach by Damien Poirier, Cécile Bothorel, Émilie Guimier De Neef, and Marc Boullé.- Afterword: ‘The Fire Sermon’ by Yorick Wilks. References.