Do happy words sound happy? A study of the relation between form and meaning for english words expressing emotions

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

Volumn 2007-January, Issue , 2007, Pages 406-410

  Nastase, Vivi ^a   Sokolova, Marina ^b   Shirabad, Jelber Sayyad ^c  

^a EML Research gGmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Meaning; Sentiment analysis; Word form

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ENGLISH WORD; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; MACHINE-LEARNING; MEANING; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; WORD FORM;

SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052942060     PISSN: 13138502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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