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NooJ Grammars for Italian Negation System and Sentiment Analysis

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Formalizing Natural Languages: Applications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities (NooJ 2021)

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Abstract

The main purpose of this study is the formalization of the Italian morphosyntactic negation system, in order to assess the relevance of this system as regards Sentiment Analysis (SA) practices and routines. The study will be conducted through the construction, application, evaluation, and debugging of specific NooJ grammars.

Italian Negation may be of three different types, that is: lexical/morphological, syntactic, and semantic. Here, we will only deal with those features of Italian negation that are subject to formalization.

As for sentence negation (SN), Italian employs above all the form non (not). It precedes the predicate inflecting in person and number, and produces sentences such as Non piove (It is false that it is raining), which are in opposition to their affirmative counterparts, i.e. Piove (It is true that it is raining).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See par. 4. for more details on double negation in Italian.

  2. 2.

    Note that alcunché, with equivalent distribution with respect to niente, does not contain a NEG morpheme/element.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e della Comunicazione, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

    Mario Monteleone

  2. Dipartimento di Culture e Società, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Ignazio Mauro Mirto

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  1. Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

    Magali Bigey

  2. Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

    Annabel Richeton

  3. Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

    Max Silberztein

  4. Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

    Izabella Thomas

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Monteleone, M., Mirto, I.M. (2021). NooJ Grammars for Italian Negation System and Sentiment Analysis. In: Bigey, M., Richeton, A., Silberztein, M., Thomas, I. (eds) Formalizing Natural Languages: Applications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities. NooJ 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1520. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92861-2_4

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