In the Context of Narrative, we Never Properly Defined the Concept of Valence

P. Boot; Angel Daza; Carsten Schnober; Willem van Hage

In the Context of Narrative, we Never Properly Defined the Concept of Valence

P. Boot, Angel Daza, Carsten Schnober, Willem van Hage

Huygens - Computationele Literatuurwetenschap

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Abstract

Valence is a concept that is increasingly being used in the computational study of narrative texts. We discuss the history of the concept and show that the word has been interpreted in various ways. Then we look at a number of Dutch tools for measuring valence. We use them on sample fragments from a large collection of narrative texts and find only moderate correlations between the valences as established by the various tools. We discuss these differences and how to handle them. We argue that the root cause of the problem is that Computational Literary Studies never properly defined the concept of valence in a narrative context.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHR 2024
Subtitle of host publication	Computational Humanities Research 2024
Editors	Wouter Haverals, Marijn Koolen , Laure Thompson
Publisher	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Pages	740-760
Number of pages	21
Volume	3834
Publication status	Published - 2024
Event	Computational Humanities Research 2024 - Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Duration: 04 Jan 2025 → 07 Jan 2025 Conference number: 5 http://2024.computational-humanities-research.org/

Conference

Conference	Computational Humanities Research 2024
Abbreviated title	CHR 2024
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aarhus
Period	04/01/2025 → 07/01/2025
Internet address	http://2024.computational-humanities-research.org/

Keywords

valence
polarity
sentiment
word embedding
narrative
computational literary studies

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Boot, P, Daza, A, Schnober, C & van Hage, W 2024, In the Context of Narrative, we Never Properly Defined the Concept of Valence. in W Haverals, MK & L Thompson (eds), CHR 2024: Computational Humanities Research 2024. vol. 3834, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 740-760, Computational Humanities Research 2024, Aarhus, Denmark, 04/01/2025. <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/paper67.pdf>

In the Context of Narrative, we Never Properly Defined the Concept of Valence. / Boot, P.; Daza, Angel; Schnober, Carsten et al.
CHR 2024: Computational Humanities Research 2024. ed. / Wouter Haverals; Marijn Koolen; Laure Thompson. Vol. 3834 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2024. p. 740-760.

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