Exploring Intensification

Napoli, Maria; Ravetto, Miriam

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“…Nevalainen (2008) study the social variation in intensifier use, with a focus on the suffix -ly. More recently, Napoli and Ravetto (2017) collect a volume of papers that explore the process of intensification following a corpus-based, cross-linguistic and contrastive approach. The volume contains various works on the variation in the distribution and incidence of the intensifiers based on sociolinguistic features and in a diachronic fashion.…”

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Exploring Fine-Tuned Embeddings that Model Intensifiers for Emotion Analysis

Bostan

Klinger

2019

Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis

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Adjective phrases like "a little bit surprised", "completely shocked", or "not stunned at all" are not handled properly by currently published state-of-the-art emotion classification and intensity prediction systems which use predominantly non-contextualized word embeddings as input. Based on this finding, we analyze differences between embeddings used by these systems in regard to their capability of handling such cases. Furthermore, we argue that intensifiers in context of emotion words need special treatment, as is established for sentiment polarity classification, but not for more fine-grained emotion prediction. To resolve this issue, we analyze different aspects of a post-processing pipeline which enriches the word representations of such phrases. This includes expansion of semantic spaces at the phrase level and sub-word level followed by retrofitting to emotion lexica. We evaluate the impact of these steps withÀ La Carte and Bagof-Substrings extensions based on pretrained GloVe, Word2vec, and fastText embeddings against a crowd-sourced corpus of intensity annotations for tweets containing our focus phrases. We show that the fastText-based models do not gain from handling these specific phrases under inspection. For Word2vec embeddings, we show that our post-processing pipeline improves the results by up to 8% on a novel dataset densely populated with intensifiers.

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Exploring Fine-Tuned Embeddings that Model Intensifiers for Emotion Analysis

Bostan

Klinger

2019

Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis

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“…The analytical framework for the analysis at linguistic devices was mainly based on Bolinger (1972) and Quirk et al (1985) and previous studies related to the translation of amplifiers (e.g. King, 2016;Napoli and Ravetto, 2017;Pintarić, 2012;Pintarić and Frleta, 2014;Poonlarp, 2009). The translated amplifiers were investigated and further divided into groups according to three processes of intensification: lexical, morphological, and syntactic processes.…”

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“…The phenomenon of intensification is regarded as having multifaceted aspects, with a variety of different features when viewed from cross-linguistic and contrastive perspectives (Napoli and Ravetto, 2017). It can be realized through various linguistic devices, from phonological (e.g., lengthening of sound, prosodic stress, or loudness) to lexical (e.g.…”

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“…Reduplication is an important mechanism in most languages for the creation of new words and the modification of meaning (Antoniak, 2005;Moravcsik, 1978;Pott, 1863;Skoda, 1982;Watts, 1968, as cited in Bonacchi, 2017. According to Bonacchi (2017, p. 290, as cited in Napoli andRavetto, 2017), reduplication "is based on the repetition of language units used as source material for the repetition (the base), which leads to a verbal 'unit' with a new meaning." It is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word or a part of it is repeated (Karjo et al, 2013;Nadarajan, 2006).…”

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The transfer of expressive meaning in the translation of Thai amplifiers in the literary works into English

Bunsorn

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This study explores cross-language intensification in affirmative sentences by examining the translation of standard and strong amplifiers, words that scale upward from an assumed norm to emphasize a quality of any entities, from Thai into English, the types of shifts involved, as well as similarities and differences in the translation of amplifiers by native and non-native translators. The data comprises 1,254 source text amplifiers, which were drawn from a corpus of eight works of fiction in Thai and their English translations translated by professional translators. Research inquiries were made with two translators to identify decisions behind their translations. The analysis of the data revealed 13 linguistic devices through three processes in the English translation: morphological, lexical, and syntactic processes. The findings suggest the tendency to transfer standard and strong amplifiers through lexical choices (e.g., intensifiers, lexical coloring, emphasizing adjectives, and multiple intensifiers), followed by syntactic processes (e.g., exclamatory constructions, idioms, and rhetorical question). Two types of translation strategies were found to be used: translation with shifts including Modulation, Mutation, and Modification, and translation without shift (Absence of shift). The results indicate that most Thai amplifiers were not literally translated, but realized through shifts. The results also reveal the similarities in the translation of Thai amplifiers by Thai and non-Thai translators, which confirm that directionality and their background may not strongly affect their choices. Their selection was made in accordance with the context and register. The findings can provide pedagogical implications in translation courses and offer a varied repertoire of linguistic forms that can be selected in transferring the source text intensity

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Intensification in dialogue vs. narrative in a corpus of present-day English fiction

Ebeling

Hasselgård

2020

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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This chapter examines adverbial intensification of adjectives in present-day English fiction, with the aim of establishing whether dialogic and narrative passages differ in this regard. Although the corpus is relatively small, the study indicates that the frequency of intensification differs across these two subregisters of fiction. Findings of a more qualitative nature include slight differences in preferred choice of intensifiers in dialogue (very > so > too) vs. narrative (so > too > very). Moreover, dialogue has a preference for evaluative adjectives, while narrative shows more variation. A comparison with authentic speech uncovered few clear patterns except the predominance of some high-frequency adverb-adjective combinations. Nevertheless, the differences between fictional dialogue and narrative demonstrate that linguistic phenomena may vary both within and across registers.

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Exploring Intensification

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Exploring Fine-Tuned Embeddings that Model Intensifiers for Emotion Analysis

Exploring Fine-Tuned Embeddings that Model Intensifiers for Emotion Analysis

The transfer of expressive meaning in the translation of Thai amplifiers in the literary works into English

Intensification in dialogue vs. narrative in a corpus of present-day English fiction

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