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The emotion ontology: Enabling interdisciplinary research in the affective sciences

  • University of Geneva
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory

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Abstract

Affective science conducts interdisciplinary research into the emotions and other affective phenomena. Currently, such research is hampered by the lack of common definitions of terms used to describe, categorise and report both individual emotional experiences and the results of scientific investigations of such experiences. High quality ontologies provide formal definitions for types of entities in reality and for the relationships between such entities, definitions which can be used to disambiguate and unify data across different disciplines. Heretofore, there has been little effort directed towards such formal representation for affective phenomena, in part because of widespread debates within the affective science community on matters of definition and categorization. To address this requirement, we are developing an Emotion Ontology (EMO). The full ontology and generated OWLDoc documentation are available for download from https://emotion-ontology.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ under the Creative Commons - Attribution license (CC BY 3.0).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationModeling and Using Context - 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2011, Proceedings
Pages119-123
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2011 - Karlsruhe, Germany
Duration: Sep 26 2011 → Sep 30 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6967 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2011
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityKarlsruhe
Period09/26/11 → 09/30/11

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