Algorithm Tracks Literary Emotion in Shakespeare, the Brothers Grimm

Computers are excellent at crunching numbers, looking for words, following a logical set of instructions. But our machines are still highly literal beasts. The subtleties of human emotion largely escape them. Which is why Saif Mohammad--a Research Officer at the Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council Canada (NRC)--wants to inject emotional color into algorithms for research, search, and maybe more.