Description
Private states - mental and emotional states such as speculations,
opinions, evaluations, sentiments, judgments and beliefs (Quirk et
1985., al are fundamental to under-standing s motivations and to
explaining the reasons for their actions. They are also ubiquitous in
language, appearing in written and spoken language ranging from
editorials, reviews, political argument, email and social media; to
face-to-face meetings and informal conversations; to purportedly
objective reports and news. The goal for our project is to bring to
the DEFT System a capability to uncover the
underlying, emerging and evolving motivations of agents - people,
organizations, countries, groups - by recognizing and analyzing the
explicit and implicit private-state information buried in natural
language text.