Using Tactical NLG to Induce Affective States: Empirical Investigations

Ielka van der Sluis; Christopher Stuart Mellish

Using Tactical NLG to Induce Affective States: Empirical Investigations

Ielka van der Sluis, Christopher Stuart Mellish

Computing Science

University of Aberdeen

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Abstract

This paper reports on attempts at Aberdeen¹to measure the effects on readers’ emotions of positively and negatively “slanted” texts with the same basic message. The “slanting” methods could be implemented in an (NLG) system. We discuss a number of possible reasons why the studies were unable to show clear, statistically significant differences between the effects of the different texts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	68-76
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - Jun 2008
Event	Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference - Ohio, United States Duration: 12 Jun 2008 → 15 Jun 2008

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Conference	Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference
Country/Territory	United States
City	Ohio
Period	12/06/08 → 15/06/08

Bibliographical note

This work was supported by the EPSRC
grant ‘Affecting people with natural language’
(EP/E011764/1) and also in part by Science Foundation Ireland under a CSET grant (NGL/CSET).
We would like to thank the people who contributed
to this study, most notably Louise Phillips, Emiel
Krahmer, Linda Moxey, Graeme Ritchie, Judith
Masthoff, Albert Gatt and Kees van Deemter.

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van der Sluis, I & Mellish, CS 2008, Using Tactical NLG to Induce Affective States: Empirical Investigations. in Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 68-76, Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference, Ohio, United States, 12/06/08. <https://aclanthology.org/W08-1110/>

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