Emo2Val: Inferring Valence Scores from fine-grained Emotion Values

English. This paper studies the relationship between the valence, one of the psycholinguistic variables in the Italian version of ANEW (Montefinese et al., 2014), and emotive scores calculated by exploiting distributional methods (Passaro et al., 2015). We show two methods to infer valence from fine grained emotions and discuss their evaluation. Italiano. Questo lavoro studia la relazione tra la valenza, una delle variabili psicolinguistiche presenti nella versione italiana di ANEW (Montefinese et al., 2014) e degli score emotivi calcolati distribuzionalmente (Passaro et al., 2015). Mostriamo due metodi per inferire la valenza a partire da tali valori e ne discutiamo la valutazione.

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