Towards Sentiment Analysis on German Literature
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چکیده
Sentiment Analysis is a Natural Language Processing-task that is relevant in a number of contexts, including the analysis of literature. We report on ongoing research towards enabling, for the first time, sentencelevel Sentiment Analysis in the domain of German novels. We create a labelled dataset from sentences extracted from German novels and, by adapting existing sentiment classifiers, reach promising F1-scores of 0.67 for binary polarity classification. Und sie lebten glücklich bis ans Ende ihrer Tage. (German fairy tales)
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