EW, ICK: Emotional Words Investigated with Contextual Knowledge

Emotions are pervasive of our everyday life and attempts to model them in more or less formal systems have flourished, from dimensional to categorical models. We face the matter adopting a frame semantics approach in order to build a knowledge graph of lexical semantic triggers reusing previously existing resources such as WordNet and VerbNet, and in particular we take as test case the concept of ”Disgust”, as conceptualized in Ekman’s theory.