Sentiment analysis on french novels from the roman18 corpus in the context of the "Mining and Modeling Text" project (University Trier). www.mimotext.uni-trier.de
The roman18-corpus of about 100-200 eighteenth-century French novels in full text is analysed via two different Sentiment Analysis pipelines: textblob fr and A Sentiment Analysis Tool Chain for 18th Century Periodical.
Excerpt of chapter two of Voltaire's novel Candide (1759) tagged with sentiments provided by "A Sentiment Analysis Tool Chain for 18th Century Periodical"
We utilise the roman18-corpus, which contains french novels 1750-1800 in XML/TEI and plain text. We utilised the novels in modernised plain text.
| file | polarity | subjectivity |
|---|---|---|
| Abbes_Voyage.txt | -0.030000690498737378 | 0.671139971139971 |
| Anonym_Suzon.txt | 0.17621220020855063 | 0.49699339589850516 |
| Beauharnais_Lettres.txt | -0.09595917295290354 | 0.6217013888888896 |
| Beaumont_Clarice.txt | 0.09166666666666666 | 0.657371794871795 |
| Benoist_Elisabeth.txt | 0.01662030789441677 | 0.6651770451770456 |
| Benouville_Pensees.txt | 0.055394797350363754 | 0.6570899470899474 |
| Bernardin_Paul.txt | 0.12725117663344399 | 0.5880710132890371 |
| ... | ... | ... |
The results of the sentiment analysis per novel using textblob are stored here : https://github.com/MiMoText/sentiment_novels/tree/main/sentiments/textblob_fr
The Sentiment Tool Chain for 18th Century Periodicals allows to extract the sentiment scores per text progression:
Voltaire's novel Candide (1759) - sentiment scores per text progress.
Koncar, P., Druml, L., Ertler, K.-D., Fuchs, A., Geiger, B. C., Glatz, C., Hobisch, E., Mayer, P., Saric, S., Scholger, M. & Voelkl, Y. (2021) A Sentiment Tool Chain for Languages of the 18th Century. https://github.com/philkon/sentiment-tool-chain
Software in this repo, unless specified otherwise, is made available under the MIT license. We don’t claim any copyright or other rights on the metadata. If you use our scripts or results, for example in research or teaching, please reference this repository using the citation suggestion below.
Sentiment Analysis on Eighteenth-Century French Novels (1751-1800), edited by Julia Röttgermann and Johanna Konstanciak, MiMoText, Trier Center for Digital Humanities, 2022. URL: https://github.com/MiMoText/sentiment_novels.