Re: [Corpora-List] rated words

From: Oliver Mason (o.mason@bham.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 15 2005 - 12:16:31 MET DST

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    I tried something similar for working out discourse
    prosodies. Many words are subjective and can't be
    classified, and as Martin said, context is very important.

    Some made up examples:
    "accident" would probably be negative
    "I came across this by accident" is neutral
     
    "decline":
    "in profits" - negative
    "in unemployment rate" - positive
     
    It could probably be modelled using some sort of fuzzy
    values, but they're too subjective and volatile, and
    context-specific for there to be a database.

    Oliver



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