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[Scott A. Crossley]

Try the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count Software (LIWC).

It is basically a semantic categorization tool that includes categories for
positive and negative emotions as well as many  others (fear, anxiety,
etc...).

That might help a bit.

It is not free, but if you send your texts to the James Pennebaker (the main
PI), I think he will run the analysis for you. The tool itself is about
$100.

http://www.liwc.net/

Scott Crossley, Ph.D.
Linguistics/TESOL

Department of English
Mississippi State University
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/tesol/tesolfaculty.html
(662) 325-2355

Institute for Intelligent Systems
University of Memphis
http://mnemosyne.csl.psyc.memphis.edu/iis/


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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
Anthony Jappy
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:44 AM
To: Corpora at uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] (no subject)

Hi,
   I have a colleague who has been manually analyzing texts in order to
determine whether they are positive or negative with respect to their
central
theme. For obvious reasons, he would now like to automate the process.
   Does anyone know of any way of determining whether the texts in an
electronic
corpus are positive or negative with respect to their theme: i.e. given a
set
of texts on capital punishment, is there any way of determining reasonably
accurately whether author A’s contribution can be seen as more positive than
author B’s, or whether a given text is positive or downright negative? My
only
experience in this area is with attempts to replicate with students reported
results concerning semantic prosodies, certainly not the most economical way
of
going about the problem mentioned above.
   There may have been a thread on this problem, but I'm afraid I don't
recall
it.
  Any bibliographical references would be gratefully accepted.

  TJ

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Tony Jappy

Department of English and North-American Studies,
University of Perpignan-Via Domitia,
66860 Perpignan Cedex,
France
tel :   +33 (0)4 68 66 22 76
fax :   +33 (0)4 68 66 17 28
e-mail :                   tony at univ-perp.fr

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