Sentiment Annotation for Lessing’s Plays: Towards a Language Resource for Sentiment Analysis on German Literary Texts

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Schmidt, Thomas ; Burghardt, Manuel

; Dennerlein, Katrin ; Wolff, Christian

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Item type:	Book section
Title of Book:	LDK-PS 2019, poster session of the 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge 2019 : Proc. of the Poster Session of the 2nd Conf. on Language, Data and Knowledge,: Leipzig, Germany, May 21, 2019 (LDK-PS 2019)
Publisher:	RWTH Aachen
Place of Publication:	Aachen
Page Range:	pp. 45-50
Date:	May 2019
Institutions:	Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff) Informatics and Data Science > Department Human-Centered Computing > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff)
Keywords:	Sentiment Annotation, Sentiment Analysis, Corpus, Annotation, Annotation Behavior, Computational Literary Studies, Lessing
Dewey Decimal Classification:	000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science 000 Computer science, information & general works > 020 Library & information sciences 400 Language > 400 Language, Linguistics 800 Literature > 800 Literature & rhetoric 800 Literature > 830 Literatures of Germanic languages
Status:	Published
Refereed:	Yes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of Regensburg:	Partially
Item ID:	43569

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Abstract

We present first results of an ongoing research project on sentiment annotation of historical plays by German playwright G. E. Lessing (1729-1781). For a subset of speeches from six of his most famous plays, we gathered sentiment annotations by two independent annotators for each play. The annotators were nine students from a Master’s program of German Literature. Overall, we gathered annotations ...