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title = "{RAGE}: {R}oman and {G}reek Emotions",
author = "Riemenschneider, Frederick and
Geiger, Jonathan D. and
Kuhn-Treichel, Thomas and
Frank, Anette",
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.73/",
doi = "10.63317/5dgh2dbex43c",
pages = "947--957",
abstract = "The study of emotions in ancient Greek and Latin literature has largely been qualitative, relying on close reading, while existing computational methods often focus on coarse-grained sentiment polarity, which limits their use for nuanced literary analysis. To bridge this gap, we present RAGE (Roman And Greek Emotions), a new corpus of approximately 100 000 words of annotated classical literature spanning multiple genres and authors. Our multi-layered annotation framework, inspired by semantic role labeling, is designed for fine-grained analysis, capturing not only the emotion itself but also its experiencer, cause, and target. We adopt a nuanced emotion taxonomy and enrich each emotion instance with additional layers for intensity, explicitness, and negation. To facilitate comparative analysis, characters are linked to Wikidata or a local ontology. We demonstrate the utility of our corpus through corpus-level exploratory analyses and an in-depth case study. RAGE and its accompanying guidelines provide a valuable resource for applying quantitative methods to the study of emotions in classical texts."
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%A Kuhn-Treichel, Thomas
%A Frank, Anette
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%Y Bel, Núria
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Markdown (Informal)
[RAGE: Roman and Greek Emotions](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.73/) (Riemenschneider et al., LREC 2026)
ACL
- Frederick Riemenschneider, Jonathan D. Geiger, Thomas Kuhn-Treichel, and Anette Frank. 2026. RAGE: Roman and Greek Emotions. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 947–957, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.