@article{oai:kitami-it.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008885,
 author = {Ptaszynski, Michal and Dybala, Pawel and Rzepka, Rafal and Araki, Kenji and Masui, Fumito},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {Journal of Open Research Software, Journal of Open Research Software},
 month = {},
 note = {We present ML-Ask – the first Open Source Affect Analysis system for textual input in Japanese. ML-Ask analyses the contents of an input (e.g., a sentence) and annotates it with information regarding the contained general emotive expressions, specific emotional words, valence-activation dimensions of overall expressed affect, and particular emotion types expressed with their respective expressions. ML-Ask also incorporates the Contextual Valence Shifters model for handling negation in sentences to deal with grammatically expressible shifts in the conveyed valence. The system, designed to work mainly under Linux and MacOS, can be used for research on, or applying the techniques of Affect Analysis within the framework Japanese language. It can also be used as an experimental baseline for specific research in Affect Analysis, and as a practical tool for written contents annotation.},
 title = {ML-Ask: Open Source Affect Analysis Software for Textual Input in Japanese},
 volume = {5},
 year = {2017}
}