Annotating Emotions in Acquired Brain Injury Patients’ Narratives

Publication

Auteur·e·s : KLEIN S., TODIRASCU A., VASSILIADOU H., KUPPELIN M., BECART J., BRIAND T., CORIDON C., GERHARD-KRAIT F., LAROCHE J., ULRICH J., KRASNY-PACINI A.

Abstract

In this article, we aim to measure the patients’ progress in recognizing and naming emotions by capturing a variety of phenomena that express emotion in discourse. To do so, we introduce an emotion annotation scheme adapted for Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) patients’ narratives. We draw on recent research outcomes in line with linguistic and psychological theories of emotion in the development of French resources for Natural Language Processing (NLP). From this perspective and following Battistelli et al. (2022) guidelines, our protocol considers several means of expressing emotions, including prototypical expressions as well as implicit means. Its originality lies on the methodology adopted for its creation, as we combined, adapted, and tested several previous annotation schemes to create a tool tailored to our spoken clinical French corpus and its unique characteristics and challenges.

Keywords

Emotion, Annotation, Acquired Brain Injury, Spoken French

Authors

  • Salomé Klein, University of Strasbourg, UR 1339/LiLPa & LiRiC
  • Amalia Todirascu, University of Strasbourg, UR 1339/LiLPa & LiRiC
  • Hélène Vassiliadou, University of Strasbourg, UR 1339/LiLPa & LiRiC
  • Marie Kuppelin, INSERM UMR-S 1329
  • Joffrey Becart, University of Strasbourg, UR 1339/LiLPa & LiRiC
  • Thalassio Briand, University of Strasbourg, UR 1339/LiLPa & LiRiC
  • Clara Coridon, University of Strasbourg, UR 1339/LiLPa & LiRiC
  • Francine Gerhard-Krait, University of Strasbourg, UR 1339/LiLPa & LiRiC
  • Joé Laroche, University of Strasbourg, UR 1339/LiLPa & LiRiC
  • Jean Ulrich, University of Strasbourg, UR 1339/LiLPa & LiRiC
  • Agata Krasny-Pacini, INSERM UMR-S 1329

Cite as

KLEIN, S. , TODIRASCU, A ., VASSILIADOU, H. , KUPPELIN, M., BECART, J., BRIAND, T. , CORIDON, C., GERHARD-KRAIT, F., LAROCHE, J., ULRICH, J ., KRASNY-PACINI, A. (2024), “Annotating Emotions in Acquired Brain Injury Patients’ Narratives”, Patient-Oriented Language Processing, in D. Demner-Fushman, S. Ananiadou, P. Thompson, & B. Ondov (Éds.), Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024, ELRA and ICCL, ACL Anthology (Turin, Italie, 20 mai 2024 ; [ https://aclanthology.org/2024.cl4health-1.4.pdf | https://aclanthology.org/2024.cl4health-1.4.pdf ] ), p. 26-36