Is reading mirrored in the face? A comparison of linguistic parameters and emotional facial expressions

Werlen, Moser and Moser, Ivan and Imhof, Christof and Bergamin, Per (2018) Is reading mirrored in the face? A comparison of linguistic parameters and emotional facial expressions. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference (Swiss-Text 2018) SwissText 2018, June 12-13, 2018, Winterthur.

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Abstract

The ongoing digitalisation facilitates mea- suring emotional characteristics of texts (e.g. lexical emotional valence), and emo- tional face expressions (e.g. facial emotional valence). In this context, a text was lex- ically analysed with the revised Berlin Af- fective Word List (BAWL-R), and videos of 91 subjects reading this text were analysed with a facial emotion recognition software. We hypothesized that lexical emotional va- lence predicts readers’ facial emotional va- lence. The result was significant but ex- plained nearly no variance (0.3%). Detecting emotional face expressions is a well estab- lished method, which means that the mostly neutral face expressions of our participants may be a result of the non-social reading sit- uation.

Item Type:	Article in conference proceedings or Presentation at a conference (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	automated facial expression recognition, Berlin Affective Word List, BAWL-R, emotional valence
Subjects:	Computer sciences > Artificial intelligence > Speech & natural language processing Linguistics, classics and related subjects > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics
Department/unit:	Fernfachhochschule Schweiz
Depositing User:	Egon Werlen
Date Deposited:	26 Apr 2019 03:33
Last Modified:	26 Apr 2019 03:33
URI:	http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/10546

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