A semantic-affective compositional approach for the affective labelling of adjective-noun and noun-noun pairs

Elisavet Palogiannidi, Elias Iosif, Polychronis Koutsakis, Alexandros Potamianos

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Abstract

Motivated by recent advances in the area of Compositional Distributional Semantic Models (CDSMs), we propose a compositional approach for estimating continuous affective ratings for adjective-noun (AN) and noun-noun (NN) pairs. The ratings are computed for the three basic dimensions of continuous affective spaces, namely, valence, arousal and dominance. We propose that similarly to the semantic modification that underlies CDSMs, affective modification may occur within the framework of affective spaces, especially when the constituent words of the linguistic structures under investigation form modifier-head pairs (e.g., AN and NN). The affective content of the entire structure is determined from the interaction between the respective constituents, i.e., the affect conveyed by the head is altered by the modifier. In addition, we investigate the fusion of the proposed model with the semantic-affective model proposed in (Malandrakis et al., 2013) applied both at word- and phrase-level. The automatically computed affective ratings were evaluated against human ratings in terms of correlation. The most accurate estimates are achieved via fusion and absolute performance improvement up to 5% and 4% is reported for NN and AN, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, WASSA 2016 at the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publicationHuman Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2016
EditorsAlexandra Balahur, Erik van der Goot, Piek Vossen, Andres Montoyo
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages154-160
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643822
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, WASSA 2016 at the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2016 - San Diego, United States
Duration: 16 Jul 2016 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, WASSA 2016 at the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2016

Conference

Conference7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, WASSA 2016 at the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period16/07/16 → …

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