AFFIMO: Toward an open-source system to detect AFFinities and eMOtions in user’s sentences

In this paper, we present AFFIMO (AFFInities and eMOtions), a first attempt to develop an open-source system to detect user’s emotions and affinities from sentences in natural language. AFFIMO integrates a lexical analysis based on SentiWordNet dictionary, a syntactic analysis to consider intensifiers and negation, and a semantic analysis to compute the valence of a sentence (positive or negative) in the light of the user’s detected affinities. AFFIMO has been implemented and tested on different sentences.

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