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Connotation Analysis

Language ambiguity as produced by humans, is often unnoticed and as such, is most of the times involuntary. In an original context, a sentence might be very clear with respect to the producer's intentions, but if it contains some unnoticed ambiguities (obliterated by the context), when put in another context, might convey a very different meaning, sometimes funny, sometimes embarrassing.

Connotation in Translation

We present a pilot study analyzing the connotative language found in a bilingual corpus of French and English headlines. We find that (1) manual annotation of connotation at the word-level is more reliable than using segment-level judgments, (2) connotation polarity is often, but not always, preserved in reference translations produced by humans, (3) machine translated text does not preserve th...

Object temporal connotation.

Recent studies show that what connotes an object is first of all a certain spatio-temporal structure. In this paper we describe some of the temporal features characterizing the temporal structure of objects: pre-existence, persistence, conservation of identity in spite of perceptive discontinuity, surviving changes in colour, size, and shape. We argue that time is an indispensable attribute for...

The Connotation of Musical Consonance

Assigning Connotation Values to Events

Sentiment Analysis (SA) and Opinion Mining (OM) have become a popular task in recent years in NLP with the development of language resources, corpora and annotation schemes. The possibility to discriminate between objective and subjective expressions contributes to the identification of a document’s semantic orientation and to the detection of the opinions and sentiments expressed by the author...

Connotation Frames: A Data-Driven Investigation

Through a particular choice of a predicate (e.g., “x violated y”), a writer can subtly connote a range of implied sentiments and presupposed facts about the entities x and y: (1) writer’s perspective: projecting x as an “antagonist” and y as a “victim”, (2) entities’ perspective: y probably dislikes x, (3) effect: something bad happened to y, (4) value: y is something valuable, and (5) mental s...