News Headline Emotion Roles (GoodNewsEveryone)
Annotate emotions in news headlines with semantic roles. Based on Bostan et al., LREC 2020. Identify emotion, experiencer, cause, target, and textual cue.
text annotation
Configuration Fileconfig.yaml
# News Headline Emotion Roles (GoodNewsEveryone)
# Based on Bostan et al., LREC 2020
# Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.194/
#
# This task annotates emotions in news headlines with semantic roles:
# - Emotion: What emotion is conveyed?
# - Experiencer: Who feels the emotion?
# - Cause: What caused the emotion?
# - Target: What is the emotion directed at?
# - Cue: What words signal the emotion?
#
# Emotion Categories (Extended Plutchik):
# Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, Surprise (positive/negative),
# Disgust, Trust, Anticipation (positive/negative),
# Love, Pride, Guilt, Shame, Annoyance
#
# Annotation Guidelines:
# 1. First identify IF there's an emotion in the headline
# 2. Classify the emotion type
# 3. Identify semantic roles (may not all be present)
# 4. Consider both writer's emotion and reader's reaction
# 5. Headlines can evoke emotions even without explicit cues
port: 8000
server_name: localhost
task_name: "News Emotion Roles"
data_files:
- sample-data.json
id_key: id
text_key: headline
output_file: annotations.json
annotation_schemes:
# Step 1: Emotion classification
- annotation_type: radio
name: emotion
description: "What is the primary emotion in this headline?"
labels:
- "Joy"
- "Sadness"
- "Fear"
- "Anger"
- "Positive Surprise"
- "Negative Surprise"
- "Disgust"
- "Trust"
- "Positive Anticipation"
- "Negative Anticipation"
- "No emotion"
tooltips:
"Joy": "Happiness, delight, celebration"
"Sadness": "Grief, sorrow, disappointment"
"Fear": "Anxiety, worry, terror"
"Anger": "Frustration, outrage, annoyance"
"Positive Surprise": "Pleasant amazement, good news"
"Negative Surprise": "Shock, disbelief at bad news"
"Disgust": "Revulsion, disapproval"
"Trust": "Confidence, faith, security"
"Positive Anticipation": "Hope, excitement for future"
"Negative Anticipation": "Dread, pessimism"
"No emotion": "Neutral, factual headline"
# Step 2: Emotion intensity
- annotation_type: likert
name: intensity
description: "How intense is the emotion?"
min_value: 1
max_value: 5
labels:
1: "Very weak"
2: "Weak"
3: "Moderate"
4: "Strong"
5: "Very strong"
# Step 3: Mark emotion cue
- annotation_type: span
name: emotion_cue
description: "Highlight words that signal the emotion (if any)"
labels:
- "Emotion Cue"
label_colors:
"Emotion Cue": "#ef4444"
tooltips:
"Emotion Cue": "Words or phrases that indicate the emotion"
allow_overlapping: false
# Step 4: Mark cause
- annotation_type: span
name: cause
description: "Highlight what CAUSED the emotion (if present)"
labels:
- "Cause"
label_colors:
"Cause": "#3b82f6"
tooltips:
"Cause": "The event or entity that caused the emotion"
allow_overlapping: false
# Step 5: Reader vs writer emotion
- annotation_type: radio
name: perspective
description: "Whose emotion is this primarily?"
labels:
- "Writer/Subject's emotion"
- "Intended reader reaction"
- "Both"
- "Unclear"
tooltips:
"Writer/Subject's emotion": "The emotion of people in the story"
"Intended reader reaction": "The emotion the headline is meant to evoke in readers"
"Both": "Both writer and reader perspective"
"Unclear": "Cannot determine the perspective"
allow_all_users: true
instances_per_annotator: 50
annotation_per_instance: 3
allow_skip: true
skip_reason_required: false
Sample Datasample-data.json
[
{
"id": "gne_001",
"headline": "Local Hero Saves Family from House Fire"
},
{
"id": "gne_002",
"headline": "Unemployment Rate Hits Record Low"
}
]
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