BHAAV (भाव) - A Text Corpus for Emotion Analysis from Hindi Stories

The first and largest Hindi text corpus, named BHAAV (भाव), which means emotions in Hindi, for analyzing emotions that a writer expresses through his 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) by three native Hindi speakers with at least ten years of formal education in Hindi.