Pharsalia - Week 6

[aspainhour1]

When going through this text it became clear that violence needed to be documented in some form. To do this I added a column to the spreadsheet to address the presence of violence. I chose to assign each sentence a violence score. The scores range from 0-2, a score of zero indicates that there is no violence present in the sentence. A score of 1 indicates that there is violent language being used in a descriptive manner. A score of 2 indicates that there is active violence occurring within the sentence. This classification might be adjusted as needed as I implement it further.

When I try to access the additional research that you added to the sentiment analysis folder it tells me that it is an invalid pdf.

[ChiaraPalladino]

@aspainhour1 what article are you trying to access? for some reason they all work for me but let me know.

I think the idea of a violence score is a good one. Add what you just wrote to the documentation file https://github.com/ChiaraPalladino/furesearch/blob/main/sentiment-analysis/fronto/fronto-documentation.md (click on the little pencil icon on the right upper corner and use markdown to write fancy stuff if you want)

[aspainhour1]

@ChiaraPalladino When I try to access both the Bothwell and Dorkin PDFs it tells me "invalid Pdf".

[ChiaraPalladino]

uhm...weird. have you tried downloading them? with this button:

let me know if it works.

[ChiaraPalladino]

One more comment about the violence score, which we should discuss in our next meeting: how is the score as it is currently assigned helping you assign a more general sentiment? Is it just a matter of "quantifying" the violence presented in the text, or more about understanding the emotion that violence is supposed to evoke?

We may even think, in the future, to add a specific violence emotion to the larger guidelines. I guess violence is not really an emotion but there may be some literature about how to work with this.

[aspainhour1]

@ChiaraPalladino Even when I attempt to download the files it tells me error.

[aspainhour1]

In regards to the violence I have found that it helps to document the violence especially in cases where the sentiment is still positive even though there is violence for instance when they are defeating the "enemy".

[ChiaraPalladino]

Closing this issue as we have discussed this in the meeting. Just update the documentation with a short explanation on the logic of the violence score.