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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Volume 2010, Article ID 782802, 15 pages doi:10.1155/2010/782802 Research Article Segmenting into Adequate Units for Automatic Recognition of Emotion-Related Episodes: A Speech-Based Approach 1 2 1 ¨ 3 Anton Batliner, Dino Seppi, Stefan Steidl, and Bjorn Schuller 1 Pattern Recognition Laboratory, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU), D-91058 Erlangen, Germany ¨ ¨ 2 ESAT, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium 3 Institute for Human-Machine Communication, Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM), D-80333 Munich, Germany ¨ ¨ Correspondence should be addressed to Anton Batliner, batliner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de Received 1 April 2009; Accepted 12 December 2009 Academic Editor: Elisabeth Andre Copyright © 2010 Anton Batliner et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We deal with the topic of segmenting emotion-related (emotional/affective) episodes into adequate units for analysis and automatic processing/classification—a topic that has not been addressed adequately so far. We concentrate on speech and illustrate promising approaches by using a database with children’s emotional speech. We argue in favour of the word as basic unit and map sequences of words on both syntactic and “emotionally consistent” chunks and report classification pe