In my current research, I am dealing with finding emotion in news articles. The hope is to add this information to a network that details relationships between entities, topics and categories. The first step is to decide on the basic emotion categories. I have defined 14 emotion categories (5 negative emotions, 5 positive emotions and 4 unspecified emotions). The categories draw heavily from Parrot’s (2001) hierarchy.

With the categories figured out, I have extracted senses from WordNet to build up an emotion dictionary. I then manually checked the words that appeared in more than one emotion category to determine if there was a mistake or not. After doing this I have ended up with just over 5,900 senses in my dictionary. I am know working on clustering the words to determine possible outliers in the categories.

References
Parrott, W. (2001), Emotions in Social Psychology,Psychology Press, Philadelphia