To form an emotion dependency feature, we take a regular dependency feature and replace each of its words where possible with the emotion it evokes as determined by the NRC Emotion Word Lexicon.
from the dependency:(nsubj,inept,obama) example above, we would generate three features: emotiondependency:(nsubj,anger,obama), emotiondependency:(nsubj,disgust,obama), and emotiondependency:(nsubj,negative,obama).