A admiração à luz dos corpos

Abstract

This paper studies the field of admiração in their two meanings in Portuguese, namely: veneration/respect and surprise, using the framework suggested in Belinda Maia’s PhD thesis (Maia 1994/1996). After presenting briefly her findings and methodology, we investigate (i) the distribution of the vague words of the field of admiração by the two meanings, and discuss the heuristics used in its rule-based distinction; (ii) the distribution of admiração by genre, tense and person; (iii) its presence in negative sentences; and (iv) its antonym(s).

Clustering emotions in Portuguese

“…We also note that it is common for words to convey more than one emotional meaning, which entails that some words are assigned to more than one group. All this has been discussed and exemplified in several papers by Mota and Santos (2015), Santos and Mota (2015), Ramos, Santos and Freitas (2020) and Santos, Simões and Mota (2022), but these facts result in additional problems for our studies on the basis of the annotated corpora.…”

Broad coverage emotion annotation

“…We have done a pilot project of full human revision for the emotion group admirar in two corpora, described in Santos and Mota (2015). But what we are going to present in the rest of the paper are studies based on much larger corpora, mainly not human revised.…”

Compiling and Processing Historical and Contemporary Portuguese Corpora

“…-Semantics: The study by Santos and Mota (2015) [23] investigate emotions using the framework by Maia (1994) [24]. The corpora available at the AC/DC project by Linguateca (including Colonia) have been used for this purpose.…”