Letting Emotions Flow: Success Prediction by Modeling the Flow of Emotions in Books

Suraj Maharjan, Sudipta Kar, Manuel Montes, Fabio A. González, Thamar Solorio


Abstract
Books have the power to make us feel happiness, sadness, pain, surprise, or sorrow. An author’s dexterity in the use of these emotions captivates readers and makes it difficult for them to put the book down. In this paper, we model the flow of emotions over a book using recurrent neural networks and quantify its usefulness in predicting success in books. We obtained the best weighted F1-score of 69% for predicting books’ success in a multitask setting (simultaneously predicting success and genre of books).
Anthology ID:
N18-2042
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
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NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
259–265
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-2042
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-2042
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Cite (ACL):
Suraj Maharjan, Sudipta Kar, Manuel Montes, Fabio A. González, and Thamar Solorio. 2018. Letting Emotions Flow: Success Prediction by Modeling the Flow of Emotions in Books. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), pages 259–265, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Letting Emotions Flow: Success Prediction by Modeling the Flow of Emotions in Books (Maharjan et al., NAACL 2018)
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https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/N18-2042.pdf
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 sjmaharjan/emotion_flow