JeSemE: Interleaving Semantics and Emotions in a Web Service for the Exploration of Language Change Phenomena

Johannes Hellrich, Sven Buechel, Udo Hahn


Abstract
We here introduce a substantially extended version of JeSemE, an interactive website for visually exploring computationally derived time-variant information on word meanings and lexical emotions assembled from five large diachronic text corpora. JeSemE is designed for scholars in the (digital) humanities as an alternative to consulting manually compiled, printed dictionaries for such information (if available at all). This tool uniquely combines state-of-the-art distributional semantics with a nuanced model of human emotions, two information streams we deem beneficial for a data-driven interpretation of texts in the humanities.
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C18-2003
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Dongyan Zhao
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10–14
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Johannes Hellrich, Sven Buechel, and Udo Hahn. 2018. JeSemE: Interleaving Semantics and Emotions in a Web Service for the Exploration of Language Change Phenomena. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 10–14, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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JeSemE: Interleaving Semantics and Emotions in a Web Service for the Exploration of Language Change Phenomena (Hellrich et al., COLING 2018)
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