Measuring Historical Emotions and Their Evolution: An Interdisciplinary Endeavour to Investigate The ‘Emotions of Encounter’

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  • Hanno Ehrlicher Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
  • Roman Klinger
  • Jörg Lehmann
  • Sebastian Pado

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18617/liinc.v15i1.4557

Abstract

ABSTRACT The empirical study of emotions in Spanish travelogues and reports requires cultural knowledge as well as the use of linguistic annotation and quantitative methods. We report on an interdisciplinary project in which we perform emotion annotation on a selection of texts spanning several centuries to analyze the differences across different time slices. We show that indeed the emotional connotation changes qualitatively and quantitatively. Next to this evaluation, we sketch strategies for future automation. This scalable reading approach combines quantitative with qualitative insights and identifies developments over time that call for deeper investigation.Keywords: Análise de Emoções Emotion Analysis; Annotation; Scalable Reading; History of Cultural Encounter; Travelogues and Reports in Spanish.

Author Biography

  • Hanno Ehrlicher, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
    Department for Romanic Studies

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Published

28/06/2019

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Digital Humanities: Views from the South

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Measuring Historical Emotions and Their Evolution: An Interdisciplinary Endeavour to Investigate The ‘Emotions of Encounter’. Liinc em Revista, [S. l.], v. 15, n. 1, 2019. DOI: 10.18617/liinc.v15i1.4557. Disponível em: https://revista.ibict.br/liinc/article/view/4557.. Acesso em: 22 jul. 2024.