Emotion Vocabularies

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This is a collection of emotion vocabularies suggested to be used with EmotionML, the emotion markup language defined by the W3C's Multimodal Interaction Activity (MMI). See the W3C technical report document Vocabularies for EmotionML (working draft).


For proper use please refer to the vocabulary section of the EmotionML specification document.


For the full list in xml format go here: Emotion_vocabularies.xml

Emotion category vocabularies

  1. Ekman's "big six" basic emotions
  2. Everyday emotion vocabulary
  3. OCC categories
  4. FSRE categories
  5. Frijda's categories

Emotion dimension vocabularies

  1. Mehrabian's PAD dimensions
  2. FSRE dimensions
  3. The intensity dimension

Appraisal vocabularies

  1. OCC appraisals
  2. Scherer's appraisals
  3. EMA appraisals

Action tendency vocabularies

  1. Frijda's action tendencies