@article{riemenschneider-etal-2026-rage,
    title = "{RAGE}: {R}oman and {G}reek Emotions",
    author = "Riemenschneider, Frederick  and
      Geiger, Jonathan D.  and
      Kuhn-Treichel, Thomas  and
      Frank, Anette",
    editor = "Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Bel, N{\'u}ria  and
      van den Heuvel, Henk  and
      Ide, Nancy  and
      Krek, Simon  and
      Toral, Antonio",
    journal = "International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
    volume = "main",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-lrec/2026.lrec-main.73/",
    pages = "947--957",
    abstract = "The study of emotions in ancient Greek and Latin literature has largely been qualitative, relying on close reading, while existing computational methods often focus on coarse-grained sentiment polarity, which limits their use for nuanced literary analysis. To bridge this gap, we present RAGE (Roman And Greek Emotions), a new corpus of approximately 100 000 words of annotated classical literature spanning multiple genres and authors. Our multi-layered annotation framework, inspired by semantic role labeling, is designed for fine-grained analysis, capturing not only the emotion itself but also its experiencer, cause, and target. We adopt a nuanced emotion taxonomy and enrich each emotion instance with additional layers for intensity, explicitness, and negation. To facilitate comparative analysis, characters are linked to Wikidata or a local ontology. We demonstrate the utility of our corpus through corpus-level exploratory analyses and an in-depth case study. RAGE and its accompanying guidelines provide a valuable resource for applying quantitative methods to the study of emotions in classical texts."
}