creators_name: Nadeau, David
creators_name: Sabourin, Catherine
creators_name: De Koninck, Joseph
creators_name: Matwin, Stan
creators_name: Turney, Peter D.
type: confposter
datestamp: 2006-08-01
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:33
metadata_visibility: show
title: Automatic Dream Sentiment Analysis
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-lang
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
full_text_status: public
keywords: dream analysis, sentiment analysis
abstract: In this position paper, we propose a first step toward automatic analysis of sentiments in dreams. 100 dreams were sampled from a dream bank created for a normative study of dreams. Two human judges assigned a score to describe dream sentiments. We ran four baseline algorithms in an attempt to automate the rating of sentiments in dreams. Particularly, we compared the General Inquirer (GI) tool, the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC), a weighted version of the GI lexicon and of the HM lexicon and a standard bag-of-words. We show that machine learning allows automating the human judgment with accuracy superior to majority class choice.
date: 2006
date_type: published
pagerange: 70-73
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Nadeau, David and Sabourin, Catherine and De Koninck, Joseph and Matwin, Stan and Turney, Peter D.  (2006) Automatic Dream Sentiment Analysis.  [Conference Poster]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/5030/1/NRC-48725.pdf