Emotions Unbound: Exploring Feeling in German, Chinese, and Polish Texts.
Chair: Plechac, Petr

The Flow of Emotions. Intratextual Emotion Progression and German-Language Poetry, c. 1850-1910

Konle, Leonard (1); Kröncke, Merten (2); Jannidis, Fotis (1); Winko, Simone (2)

1: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany; 2: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

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We examine the representation of emotions in German-language poetry from 1850 to 1910 by analyzing their intratextual progression. Contrary to scholarly expectations, we find no substantial differences between realist and modernist poems. Rather, we show that in both periods the frequency of emotion increases toward the end of the poems.


Emotion Detection of Characters' Dialogues in Chinese Classic Novels: Take "Jin Ping Mei" as an example

Yang, Dian-Han (1); Chan, Ya-Chi (2,3); Lin, Wei-Shu (4); Tsai*, Richard Tzong-Han (2,5)

1: International Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence, National Central University, Taiwan; 2: Center for GIS, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; 3: Institute for Sustainable Heritage, University College London, United Kingdom; 4: Department of Chinese Literature, Tamkang University, Taiwan; 5: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan

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This study introduces a new method to detect the emotion trend of characters from Chinese classic novel through chapters. By leveraging advancements in NLP and machine learning, it proposes a methodology for detecting and interpreting emotional shifts in characters, offering an objective complement to traditional literary analysis.


Distant Reading a Minor Literature: A New Hope?

Kwaśnicka-Janowicz, Agata (1); Rybicki, Jan (2)

1: Faculty of Polish Studies, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Poland; 2: Faculty of Philology, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Poland

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This paper presents a new digital and ready-for-analysis collection of over 10,000 texts of Polish literature consisting of drama, poetry and prose both originally Polish and translated from 23 other languages, together with a series of quantitative and qualitative analyses of this collection.