ACDH - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
Digital Lexis, and Beyond
Selected Papers from the Workshop „Digital Lexis, and Beyond”
45th Austrian Linguistics Conference
Dec. 2019
Manfred B. Sellner
S. 1 - 14
doi:
10.1553/Sentiment_Analysiss1
doi:
10.1553/Sentiment_Analysis
Abstract:
This pilot-study of a computational analysis of literary texts presents the results of aspects of a “sentiment analysis”. The data of analysis are the autobiographies of the Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard. The primary object of attention are the sentiments “joy” and “fear”. We elaborate on and demonstrate the impact of several preprocessing procedures, describe the characteristics of the dictionary and the annotations of its entries conceived and used for analysis. We specify the general methodology and the steps involved for quantifying of its result by the use of the functions of the R-package “Quanteda”. The descriptive output of the procedures is examined with several statistical measures to compare the counts of “joy” vs “fear” that were found in the texts individually, contrastively and in combination as a corpus. We conclude that there is a proportional and relative difference between the frequencies of the sentiments of the individual texts, but that this observation is insignificant if interpreted on the basis of the non-parametric Wilcoxon rank-sum test. A “goodness of fit” test, on the other hand, shows that the two sentiments show a homogeneous distribution across the corpus
computational analysis, literary sentiment analysis, sentiment dictionary
Published Online:
2021/04/21 12:20:45
Object Identifier:
0xc1aa5576 0x003c6409
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This volume of proceedings contains selected papers from the workshop “Digital Lexis, and Beyond” that was held as part of the “45th Austrian Linguistics Conference” in December 2019. The individual papers collected in this volume cover a rather big range of diverse topics within the limits set by the suggested topical bounds of “lexis”. The contributions discuss and investigate digital “tools” and “methods” and show different foci of attention: the documentation of language usage in Greek, Aramaic, Arabic, Austrian German Dialects, and their possibilities of digital access, as well as the exploration of linguistic phenomena, such as diachronic change, the appearance of new linguistic varieties, or the detection of sentiments in literature. All the papers have been peer reviewed (according to a double-blind peer review procedure) by specialists in their respective fields, so that the editors are confident of their academic quality and usefulness for future research in “digital lexicography” and “corpus linguistics”.
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