... systems that incorporate emotion in order to help users discover documents in meaningful ways that move beyond keyword and bibliographic searches. Originality/value – This is one of the earliest research papers in the area of emotional information retrieval (EmIR). Diane Rasmussen Pennington can...

... it is possible to separate the pivotal emotions of every document – if indeed there is any feeling at all. Originality/value This paper is one of the first steps in the new research area of emotional information retrieval (EmIR). To the authors' knowledge, it is the first research project into the collective...