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Please acknowledge the authors by citing the following publications in any research work or presentation containing results obtained in whole or in part through the use of SenticNet:

E Cambria, R Mao, X Zhang, L Xiao, T Shen, A Anand. SenticNet 9: Generative Commonsense for Emotion AI via Conceptual Primitive Discovery and Time Shift Mechanism. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems 13 (2026)

Y Susanto, A Livingstone, BC Ng, E Cambria. The Hourglass Model Revisited. IEEE Intelligent Systems 35(5), 96-102 (2020)
