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.- Anthology ID:
- W16-4008
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology Resources and Tools for Digital Humanities (LT4DH)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Osaka, Japan
- Editors:
- Erhard Hinrichs, Marie Hinrichs, Thorsten Trippel
- Venue:
- LT4DH
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
- Note:
- Pages:
- 54–61
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W16-4008
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Sven Buechel, Johannes Hellrich, and Udo Hahn. 2016. Feelings from the Past—Adapting Affective Lexicons for Historical Emotion Analysis. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology Resources and Tools for Digital Humanities (LT4DH), pages 54–61, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
- Cite (Informal):
- Feelings from the Past—Adapting Affective Lexicons for Historical Emotion Analysis (Buechel et al., LT4DH 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ml4al-ingestion/W16-4008.pdf