The end of deep reading is a commonplace in public debates, whenever societies talk about
youth, books, and the digital age. In contrast to this, we show for the first time and in detail …

Emotions are a crucial part of compelling narratives: literature tells us about people with
goals, desires, passions, and intentions. Emotion analysis is part of the broader and larger …

The article sets up a critique of Sentiment Analysis (SA) tools in literary studies, both from a
theoretical and a computational point of view. In the first section, a possible use of SA in …

We present results from a project on sentiment analysis of drama texts, more concretely the
plays of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. We conducted an annotation study to create a gold …

This article presents a method of emotion analysis for German drama from the 17th to the
19th century that significantly goes beyond previous research approaches in computational …

In Chinese classics, the sentiment attitudes or thoughts of the ancients regarding specific
environments, people, and events were generally expressed in the form of poetry …

One of the biggest hurdles for the utilization of machine learning in interdisciplinary projects
is the need for annotated training data which is costly to create. Emotion annotation is a …

We present SentText, a web-based tool to perform and explore lexicon-based sentiment
analysis on texts, specifically developed for the Digital Humanities (DH) community. The tool …

We present results of a project on emotion classification on historical German plays of
Enlightenment, Storm and Stress, and German Classicism. We have developed a …

We present first results of the project “Emotions in Drama” in which we explore the
annotation of emotions and the application of computational emotion analysis …