Affective
computing is advancing as a field that allows a new form of human
computer interaction, in addition to the use of natural language.
There is a wide perception that the future of human-computer interaction
is in themes such as entertainment, emotions, aesthetic pleasure,
motivation, attention, engagement, etc. Studying the relation
between natural language and affective information and dealing
with its computational treatment is becoming crucial. In this
paper we present a linguistic resource for a lexical representation
of affective knowledge. This resource (named WORDNET-AFFECT) was
developed starting from WORDNET, through the selection and labeling
of the synsets representing affective concepts.
