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 for 1,183 speeches. We report sentiment distributions and agreement metrics and put
the results in the context of current research. A preliminary version of the annotated corpus of
speeches is publicly available online and can be used for further investigations, evaluations and
computational sentiment analysis approaches.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:91895 |
| Date | 05 June 2024 |
| Creators | Schmidt, Thomas, Burghardt, Manuel, Dennerlein, Katrin, Wolff, Christian |
| Publisher | CEUR-WS.org |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:conferenceObject, info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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