Emotion Analysis in NLP: Trends, Gaps and Roadmap for Future Directions

arXiv:2403.01222v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Emotions are a central aspect of communication. Consequently, emotion analysis (EA) is a rapidly growing field in natural language processing (NLP). However, there is no consensus on scope, direction, or methods. In this paper, we conduct a thorough review of 154 relevant NLP publications from the last decade. Based on this review, we address four different questions: (1) How are EA tasks defined in NLP? (2) What are the most prominent emotion frameworks and which …

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