A Complementary Account to Emotion Extraction and Classification in Cultural Heritage Based on the Plutchik’s Theory

The paper presents a combined approach to knowledge-based emotion attribution and classification of cultural items employed in the H2020 project SPICE. In particular, we show a preliminary experimentation conducted on a selection of items contributed by the GAM Museum in Turin (Galleria di Arte Moderna), pointing out how different language-based approaches to emotion categorization (used in the systems Sophia and DEGARI respectively) can be powerfully combined to cope with both coverage and extended affective attributions. Interestingly, both approaches are based on an ontology of the Plutchik’s theory of emotions.