Re: [Alicebot-general] Natural Language Processing and emotions

> Hi Nicola,
>
> In Program N there exists a number of additional
> (not standard) tags for
> AIML that drive a set of numbers which reflect
> dimensions in emotions.
> Jacco Bikker, who wrote the original version (for a
> pocket pc) which I
> enhanced greatly, invented this emotion engine.  The
> feature is mostly
> parameter driven so it can be tuned to different
> personalities.  It can be
> loaded and unloaded and modified in the scripting
> language.  When using this
> engine the list of responses in a <random> tag can
> be warped towards
> favoring the current emotional state of the bot.
>
> Also available for the cost of waiting until the
> calculations are performed,
> is the interface to ConceptNet.  That tool will take
> in a text string -
> could be the client's input - and return a list of
> emotions each with a
> probability factor.  The basic download for AIMLpad
> (Program N) contains a
> script to access ConceptNet and utilize those
> indicators.
>
> This might be good if the bot was just to reflect
> the emotions of the
> client, but better yet would be to utilize the
> built-in expert system to
> have a set of rules that decides statistically the
> best emotional response.
> For example, if the bot is excited and the client
> inputs some harsh words,
> maybe a belligerent reply is warranted and
> influenced by modifying the
> emotion engine's internal numbers.
>
> Finally, the AIML output can be annotation to make
> the MS Agent change to
> display the emotion.  Stefan Zakarias added the
> escape coding to change
> speech rate and actions of the MS Agent.  To best
> work this you might want
> to extend an MS Agent to perform more emotion
> actions.
>
> Tutorials for these features can be found at
> www.aimlpad.com as well as a
> download of the desktop editor.  A much better place
> to download it is
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/program-n/
>
> Happy experimenting,
>   Gary Dubuque, playing with music synthesizers to
> fill in the backgrounds
> (like maybe a laugh track)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alicebot-general-bounces@...
>

> Behalf Of Nicola
> Alexander Schlup
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:15 AM
> To: alicebot-general@...
> Subject: [alicebot-general] Natural Language
> Processing and emotions
>
>
> Hi all
>
> I would like to know if there are any possibilities
> to determine
> emotions for given sentences with Computational
> Linguistics/Natural
> Language Processing. Is there any known solution for
> this pattern? It
> should not just be an AIML file where every sentence
> got a static
> emotion code. I need such a solution for a research
> paper where I want
> to let a chatbot add emotion code to given
> sentences. The output could
> be used for avaters in 3D tools or any other
> visualization tool. Thanks
> a lot.
>
> Kind regards,
> Nicola Alexander Schlup
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