BHAAV

A dataset of sentences from Hindi stories tagged with different emotion tags developed by

BHAAV is the first and largest Hindi text corpus for analyzing emotions that a writer expresses through his/her characters in a story, as perceived by a narrator/reader. The corpus consists of 20,304 sentences collected from 230 different short stories spanning across 18 genres such as प्रेरणादायक (Inspirational) and रहस्यमयी (Mystery). Each sentence has been annotated into one of the five emotion categories anger, joy, suspense, sad, and neutral.

This repository contains link to download the data, and information about the corpus.

For more details on how the dataset was created, and baseline models, please refer to our paper, BHAAV- A Text Corpus for Emotion Analysis from Hindi Stories

The dataset can be obtained from https://zenodo.org/record/3457467#.Xd07oy2ZO-t

Dataset Overview

Distribution of sentences in different categories of emotions in the BHAAV dataset.

Inter-annotator agreements for each genre and for the entire dataset as measured using Fleiss‘s Kappa.

Sample sentences from BHAAV dataset for each emotion label.

Performance of the baseline supervised classification models on BHAAV dataset.

Top 10 most important features for each emotion category as identified by the Logistic Regression model during training.

Flow of emotions in randomly selected stories from two different genres.

Terms of Use

This corpus can be used freely for research purposes.
The paper listed below provide details of the creation and use of the corpus. If you use the corpus, then please cite the paper.
If interested in commercial use of the corpus, send email to midas@iiitd.ac.in.
If you use the corpus in a product or application, then please credit the authors and Multimodal Digital Media Analysis Lab - Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi appropriately. Also, if you send us an email, we will be thrilled to know about how you have used the corpus.
Multimodal Digital Media Analysis Lab - Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi, India disclaims any responsibility for the use of the corpus and does not provide technical support. However, the contact listed above will be happy to respond to queries and clarifications.
Rather than redistributing the corpus, please direct interested parties to this page

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References

Please cite [1] if you found the resources in this repository useful.

[1] Kumar, Y., Mahata, D., Aggarwal, S., Chugh, A., Maheshwari, R., and Shah, R. R. BHAAV- A Text Corpus for Emotion Analysis from Hindi Stories

@article{kumar2019bhaav,
  title={BHAAV-A Text Corpus for Emotion Analysis from Hindi Stories},
  author={Kumar, Yaman and Mahata, Debanjan and Aggarwal, Sagar and Chugh, Anmol and Maheshwari, Rajat and Shah, Rajiv Ratn},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.04073},
  year={2019}
}

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