Fuzzy linguistic aggregation to synthesize the Hourglass of Emotions

Emotions govern all the human actions and play a key role in decision-making processes. Capturing sentiments and opinions hidden in the written (natural) language is a key activity which attracts both the scientific community, by leading to many novel challenges, and the business world, by supporting market behavior and prediction. Sentiment analysis and Sentic Computing are two interrelated research trends that, by exploiting the common sense in the natural language, try to distill human feelings in the textual data.