Construction of a Chinese Corpus for the Analysis of the Emotionality of Metaphorical Expressions

• DOI: 10.18653/v1/p18-2024
• Publication Date: 2019-06-29T15:52:10Z
• Authors: Dongyu Zhang; Hongfei Lin; Liang Yang; Shaowu Zhang; Bo Xu
• Keywords: Sadness; Surprise; Disgust

Metaphors are frequently used to convey emotions. However, there is little research on the construction of metaphor corpora annotated with emotion for analysis emotionality metaphorical expressions. Furthermore, most studies focus English, and few in other languages, particularly Sino-Tibetan languages such as Chinese, from texts, although likely be many differences emotional expressions usages across different languages. We therefore construct a significant new corpus metaphor, 5,605 manually sentences Chinese. present an annotation scheme that contains annotations linguistic metaphors, categories (joy, anger, sadness, fear, love, disgust surprise), intensity. The agreement analyses multiple annotators described. also use explore analyze metaphors. To best our knowledge, this first relatively large emotions