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.首个且规模最大的印地语文本语料库BHAAV（भाव，印地语中意为“情感”），旨在分析叙事者/读者所感知到的、作者在故事中借由角色所表达的情感。该语料库包含来自230篇不同短篇小说的20304条语句，这些作品涵盖18种题材，包括励志（Inspirational）与悬疑（Mystery）类。每条语句均由三名具备至少十年印地语正规教育背景的印地语母语使用者，标注为愤怒、喜悦、悬疑、悲伤及中性这五类情感类别之一。