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Shaping Event Backstories to Estimate Potential Emotion Contexts

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09954v1
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:15:52 GMT
Title: Shaping Event Backstories to Estimate Potential Emotion Contexts
Authors: Johannes Schäfer, Roman Klinger,
Abstract summary: We propose a novel approach that adds reasonable contexts to event descriptions.<n>Our goal is to understand whether these enriched contexts enable human annotators to annotate emotions more reliably.
Score: 9.088303226909277
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Abstract: Emotion analysis is an inherently ambiguous task. Previous work studied annotator properties to explain disagreement, but this overlooks the possibility that ambiguity may stem from missing information about the context of events. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that adds reasonable contexts to event descriptions, which may better explain a particular situation. Our goal is to understand whether these enriched contexts enable human annotators to annotate emotions more reliably. We disambiguate a target event description by automatically generating multiple event chains conditioned on differing emotions. By combining techniques from short story generation in various settings, we achieve coherent narratives that result in a specialized dataset for the first comprehensive and systematic examination of contextualized emotion analysis. Through automatic and human evaluation, we find that contextual narratives enhance the interpretation of specific emotions and support annotators in producing more consistent annotations.

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