A carregar...
Projeto de investigação
Not Available
Financiador
Autores
Publicações
Harvesting Context and Mining Emotions Related to Olfactory Cultural Heritage
Publication . Graça da Silva, Sara; Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição (IELT - NOVA FCSH)
This paper presents an Artificial Intelligence approach to mining context and emotions related to olfactory cultural heritage narratives, particularly to fairy tales. We provide an overview of the role of smell and emotions in literature, as well as highlight the importance of olfactory experience and emotions from psychology and linguistic perspectives. We introduce a methodology for extracting smells and emotions from text, as well as demonstrate the context-based visualizations related to smells and emotions implemented in a novel smell tracker tool. The evaluation is performed using a collection of fairy tales from Grimm and Andersen. We find out that fairy tales often connect smell with the emotional charge of situations. The experimental results show that we can detect smells and emotions in fairy tales with an F1 score of 91.62 and 79.2, respectively.
Introduction
Publication . Silva, Sara Graça; Falcato, Ana; Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição (IELT - NOVA FCSH); Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)
“You Stink!” Smell and Moralisation of the Other
Publication . Silva, Sara Graça; Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição (IELT - NOVA FCSH)
Although scholarship on the senses and sensory history has been fast expanding over the last decades, the importance of smell tends to be somewhat overlooked in favour of the other senses, in particular vision, already regarded by the likes of Plato as a superior sense. The ephemeral nature of smell, and the inherent difficulties in interpreting its sensory information, help explain this lack of attention. Smell is, however, one of the most intriguing senses, pivotal in the perception of ourselves and others, and deeply connected to our emotions and moral decisions. Medical and cultural historians, as well as anthropologists and psychologists, have emphasised the key role olfaction plays across time and place, not only through rituals, or as a means of diagnosing disease, but also as a warning mechanism regarding threats and dangerous environments, and ultimately, dangerous, stinky people (Classen C., Howes D., Synnott A. 1994; Reinarz, J. 2014; Jenner, M. 2011). In Hamlet, Marcellus alludes to the state of political and moral corruption at Elsinore using an olfactory reference—“something is rotten in the state of Denmark”. Indeed, shared, familiar smells create a sense of identity and security, at both individual and group level, whereas the opposite leads to smelly feelings of distrust, avoidance and fear. In an increasing globalised world, smell is intimately connected to the politics of power, status and identity. Recent studies have shown that body odour disgust sensitivity (BODS) is commonly linked with authoritarianism and avoidance of “individuals and groups that are perceived as foreign, strange, morally deviant or norm violating” (Liuzza et al., Royal Society Open Science 5: 171091, 2018: 2). In this chapter, I revive Alain Corbin’s masterful distinction between “the foul and the fragrant”, and use smell and emotional olfactory experiences to explore negative attitudes towards certain societal outgroups, in particular migrants and refugees.
Unidades organizacionais
Descrição
Palavras-chave
Contribuidores
Financiadores
Entidade financiadora
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Programa de financiamento
DL 57/2016
Número da atribuição
DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0028