Jean Ulrich


2024

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Annotating Emotions in Acquired Brain Injury Patients’ Narratives
Salomé Klein | Amalia Todirascu | Hélène Vassiliadou | Marie Kuppelin | Joffrey Becart | Thalassio Briand | Clara Coridon | Francine Gerhard-Krait | Joé Laroche | Jean Ulrich | Agata Krasny-Pacini
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024

In this article, we aim to measure the patients’ progress in recognizing and naming emotions by capturing a variety of phenomena that express emotion in discourse. To do so, we introduce an emotion annotation scheme adapted for Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) patients’ narratives. We draw on recent research outcomes in line with linguistic and psychological theories of emotion in the development of French resources for Natural Language Processing (NLP). From this perspective and following Battistelli et al. (2022) guidelines, our protocol considers several means of expressing emotions, including prototypical expressions as well as implicit means. Its originality lies on the methodology adopted for its creation, as we combined, adapted, and tested several previous annotation schemes to create a tool tailored to our spoken clinical French corpus and its unique characteristics and challenges.