Towards emotion analysis for Alsatian theater

The poster presents the first emotion analysis system for theater in Alsatian language varieties. It is a lexicon-based system, relying on an emotion lexicon which handles Alsatian’s huge orthographic variability. We describe the system’s functionality, regarding configurable term-weighting schemes, score aggregation based on plays’ metadata (e.g. genre) and character related variables (gender, socioprofessional group), and visualizations output by the tool, presenting some initial results. The system, still at an early stage, intends to contribute to computational literary studies of a tradition scarcely studied using computational methods.