10.5281/zenodo.3862149
https://zenodo.org/records/3862149
oai:zenodo.org:3862149
Sprugnoli, Rachele
Rachele
Sprugnoli
0000-0001-6861-5595
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Passarotti, Marco
Marco
Passarotti
0000-0002-9806-7187
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Corbetta, Daniela
Daniela
Corbetta
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Peverelli, Andrea
Andrea
Peverelli
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Odi et Amo. Creating, Evaluating and Extending Sentiment Lexicons for Latin
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
2020
Latin
Sentiment Analysis
2020-05-16
eng
10.5281/zenodo.3830350
https://zenodo.org/communities/digiclass
https://zenodo.org/communities/eu
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Sentiment lexicons are essential for developing automatic sentiment analysis systems, but the resources currently available mostly cover modern languages. Lexicons for ancient languages are few and not evaluated with high-quality gold standards. However, the study of attitudes and emotions in ancient texts is a growing field of research which poses specific issues (e.g., lack of native speakers, limited amount of data, unusual textual genres for the sentiment analysis task, such as philosophical or documentary texts) and can have an impact on the work of scholars coming from several disciplines besides computational linguistics, e.g. historians and philologists. The work presented in this paper aims at providing the research community with a set of sentiment lexicons built by taking advantage of manually-curated resources belonging to the long tradition of Latin corpora and lexicons creation. Our interdisciplinary approach led us to release: i) two automatically generated sentiment lexicons; ii) a Gold Standard developed by two Latin language and culture experts; iii) a Silver Standard in which semantic and derivational relations are exploited so to extend the list of lexical items of the Gold Standard. In addition, the evaluation procedure is described together with a first application of the lexicons to a Latin tragedy.
European Commission
10.13039/501100000780
769994
Linking Latin. Building a Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin