[Corpora-List] rated words

Oliver Mason o.mason at bham.ac.uk
Fri Apr 15 10:16:31 UTC 2005


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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