Early modern Dutch comedies and farces in the spotlight : introducing EmDComF and its emotion framework
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- Florian Debaene (UGent) , Kornee van der Haven (UGent) and Veronique Hoste (UGent)
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- As computational drama studies are developing rapidly, the Dutch dramatic tradition is in need of centralisation still before it can benefit from state-of-the-art methodologies. This paper presents and evaluates EmDComF, a historical corpus of both manually curated and automatically digitised early modern Dutch comedies and farces authored between 1650 and 1725, and describes the refinement of a historically motivated annotation framework exploring sentiment and emotions in these two dramatic subgenres. Originating from Lodewijk Meyer{'}s philosophical writings on passions in the dramatic genre ({\mbox{$±$}}1670), published in Naauwkeurig onderwys in de tooneel-poëzy (Thorough instruction in the Poetics of Drama) by the literary society Nil Volentibus Arduum in 1765, a historical and genre-specific emotion framework is tested and operationalised for annotating emotions in the domain of early modern Dutch comedies and farces. Based on a frequency and cluster analysis of 782 annotated sentences by 2 expert annotators, the initial 38 emotion labels were restructured to a hierarchical label set of the 5 emotions Hatred, Anxiety, Sadness, Joy and Desire.
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- Early Modern Dutch Theatre, Historical Drama, NLP, OCR, Emotion Analysis
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HYWQ0AZDHNM19G5NB0NZPX11
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- Debaene, Florian, et al. “Early Modern Dutch Comedies and Farces in the Spotlight : Introducing EmDComF and Its Emotion Framework.” Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) @ LREC-COLING-2024, edited by Rachele Sprugnoli and Marco Passarotti, ELRA and ICCL, 2024, pp. 144–55.
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- Debaene, F., van der Haven, K., & Hoste, V. (2024). Early modern Dutch comedies and farces in the spotlight : introducing EmDComF and its emotion framework. In R. Sprugnoli & M. Passarotti (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) @ LREC-COLING-2024 (pp. 144–155). Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL.
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- Debaene, Florian, Kornee van der Haven, and Veronique Hoste. 2024. “Early Modern Dutch Comedies and Farces in the Spotlight : Introducing EmDComF and Its Emotion Framework.” In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) @ LREC-COLING-2024, edited by Rachele Sprugnoli and Marco Passarotti, 144–55. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL.
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- Debaene, Florian, Kornee van der Haven, and Veronique Hoste. 2024. “Early Modern Dutch Comedies and Farces in the Spotlight : Introducing EmDComF and Its Emotion Framework.” In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) @ LREC-COLING-2024, ed by. Rachele Sprugnoli and Marco Passarotti, 144–155. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL.
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- 1.Debaene F, van der Haven K, Hoste V. Early modern Dutch comedies and farces in the spotlight : introducing EmDComF and its emotion framework. In: Sprugnoli R, Passarotti M, editors. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) @ LREC-COLING-2024. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL; 2024. p. 144–55.
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- [1]F. Debaene, K. van der Haven, and V. Hoste, “Early modern Dutch comedies and farces in the spotlight : introducing EmDComF and its emotion framework,” in Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) @ LREC-COLING-2024, Turin, Italy, 2024, pp. 144–155.
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author = {{Debaene, Florian and van der Haven, Kornee and Hoste, Veronique}},
booktitle = {{Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) @ LREC-COLING-2024}},
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year = {{2024}},
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