synesketch.emotion
Class Empathyscope

java.lang.Object
  synesketch.emotion.Empathyscope

public class Empathyscope
extends java.lang.Object

Defines logic for transfering textual affect information -- emotional manifestations recognised in text -- into visual output.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Uros Krcadinac email: uros@krcadinac.com

Method Summary

EmotionalState	feel(java.lang.String text) Textual affect sensing behavior, the main NLP alghoritm which uses Synesketch Lexicon and several heuristic rules.
static Empathyscope	getInstance() Returns the Singleton instance of the Empathyscope.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getInstance

public static Empathyscope getInstance()
                                throws java.io.IOException

Returns the Singleton instance of the Empathyscope.

Returns:

Empathyscope instance

Throws:

java.io.IOException

feel

public EmotionalState feel(java.lang.String text)
                    throws java.io.IOException

Textual affect sensing behavior, the main NLP alghoritm which uses Synesketch Lexicon and several heuristic rules.

Parameters:

text - String representing the text to be analysed

Returns:

EmotionalState which represents data recognised from the text

Throws:

java.io.IOException