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This paper presents the SEMAINE API, an open source framework for building emotion-oriented systems. By encouraging and
simplifying the use of standard representation formats, the framework aims to contribute to interoperability and reuse of system
components in the research community. By providing a Java and C++ wrapper around a message-oriented middleware, the API
makes it easy to integrate components running on different operating systems and written in different programming languages.
The SEMAINE system 1.0 is presented as an example of a full-scale system built on top of the SEMAINE API. Three small example
systems are described in detail to illustrate how integration between existing and new components is realised with minimal effort.