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Annotating candy speech in German YouTube comments

Abstract

AbstractWe describe the phenomenon of candy speech – positive emotional speech in online communication – and introduce a classification of its various types based on the theoretical framework of social interaction by Goffman (1967). We provide a dataset of 46,286 German YouTube comments manually annotated with candy speech

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Authors

Yulia Clausen, Tatjana Scheffler

Topics

Interdisciplinary > Linguistics Interdisciplinary > Social > Social Media Analysis Natural Language Processing > Applications > Sentiment Analysis

Keywords

social media analysis sentiment classification german language social media emotional speech discourse annotation social media comment candy speech emotional speech annotation speech act classification

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