Agree with Martin and Oliver about context-sensitivity and topic dependence,
still there are some some works that could help you get started:
There is a dictionary of affective/emotonal words out there for English
(forgot exact title) and an article "Words with attitudes" (Jaap Kamps &
Maarten Marx) using Wordnet and a measure called Minimum Path Length (MPL)
to derive some emotional content measure.
Michel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephan Gillmeier" <stephan.gillmeier@rz.uni-freiburg.de>
To: <corpora@uib.no>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:59 AM
Subject: [Corpora-List] rated words
> Dear All,
>
> I am looking for a list of words (English or German) that were rated for
> the
> emotion they convey (for example, a value like -.98 for an emotionally
> very
> negative word such as 'death', or +.96 for a positive word such as
> 'love').
> The words could be taken from any domain, and there are no constraints on
> word class (noun, verb, adjective, etc.).
> Eventually, I am planning to run a corresponding "norming study" by
> myself,
> but I first wanted to be sure whether this has already been done by
> others.
> I'd appeciate any hint where I could find such a data base.
>
> Thank you,
> Stephan
>
>
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