A Linguistic Approach Towards Automatic Acquisition and Classification of Common Chinese Affective Events

doi:10.1145/3726526

	A Linguistic Approach Towards Automatic Acquisition and Classification of Common Chinese Affective Events
	Wang, Ya 1; Cao, Cungen 2; Huang, Xin 1; Hui, Ming 1; Zheng, Wei 1
	2025-05-01
发表期刊	ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ASIAN AND LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING
ISSN	2375-4699
卷号	24 期号:5 页码:23
摘要	Affective events are events that are typically associated with a positive or negative emotional state. For example, get food is a desirable event, while suffer from asthma is an undesirable event. Identifying affective events and their polarities is essential for many artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. Since sentiments toward an affective event is often implicit, affective event acquisition and classification have always been two great challenges. Encounter events are a special type of affective events. The goal of this article is to automatically acquire and classify stereotypically positive and negative encounter events in Chinese. First of all, we collect a comprehensive list of Chinese encounter event indicators based on the literature related to Chinese encounter events. Then, we automatically extract candidate encounter events from a text corpus using these indicators as keywords. In order to acquire high-quality encounter events, we design an event filtering scheme and generate a novel stopword list. Finally, we classify these obtained encounter events exploiting the indicators. Experimental results show that the proposed approaches to acquire and classify Chinese encounter events perform promisingly well. One key advantage of the method is that no labelling and training of data is required. The automatically constructed common affective event knowledge base contains more than 38,000 encounter events annotated with affective polarity labels (negative or positive), which is currently the only resource of common affective events in Chinese language. Related resources including encounter event indicators and encounter events will be released after the publication of this article.
DOI	10.1145/3726526
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation of the Ministry of Education in China[24YJCZH135] ; Science and Technology Project of Henan Province[252102210027] ; Science and Technology Project of Henan Province[242102211019] ; Doctoral search Fund of Nanyang Normal University[2024ZX008]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
WOS类目	Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
WOS记录号	WOS:001501155000003
出版者	ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/42324
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Huang, Xin
作者单位	1.Nanyang Nor mal Univ, Sch Artificial Intelligence & Software Engn, Nanyang, Henan, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Ya,Cao, Cungen,Huang, Xin,et al. A Linguistic Approach Towards Automatic Acquisition and Classification of Common Chinese Affective Events[J]. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ASIAN AND LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING,2025,24(5):23.
APA	Wang, Ya,Cao, Cungen,Huang, Xin,Hui, Ming,&Zheng, Wei.(2025).A Linguistic Approach Towards Automatic Acquisition and Classification of Common Chinese Affective Events.ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ASIAN AND LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING,24(5),23.
MLA	Wang, Ya,et al."A Linguistic Approach Towards Automatic Acquisition and Classification of Common Chinese Affective Events".ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ASIAN AND LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING 24.5(2025):23.