@inproceedings{buechel-etal-2016-feelings,
    title = "Feelings from the {P}ast{---}{A}dapting Affective Lexicons for Historical Emotion Analysis",
    author = "Buechel, Sven  and
      Hellrich, Johannes  and
      Hahn, Udo",
    editor = "Hinrichs, Erhard  and
      Hinrichs, Marie  and
      Trippel, Thorsten",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology Resources and Tools for Digital Humanities ({LT}4{DH})",
    month = dec,
    year = "2016",
    address = "Osaka, Japan",
    publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/W16-4008/",
    pages = "54--61",
    abstract = "We here describe a novel methodology for measuring affective language in historical text by expanding an affective lexicon and jointly adapting it to prior language stages. We automatically construct a lexicon for word-emotion association of 18th and 19th century German which is then validated against expert ratings. Subsequently, this resource is used to identify distinct emotional patterns and trace long-term emotional trends in different genres of writing spanning several centuries."
}