Detecting Emotion in Text

Advancements in textual analysis have allowed the area of emotion detection to become a recent interest in computational linguistics. This paper presents a general overview of the many diverse approaches that recognize emotion in text. It goes over the components the approaches have in common and then goes on to describe the different types of algorithms and results that been developed to date. Additionally, the paper covers the challenges and concerns of the field and what will come of emotion detection in the future.