Comments on: generating the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) dataset

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:14:20 +0000

The CSV is compressed as a tarball, Nico. Any decent archive program should be able to unzip it. ]]>

By: Nico

Nico — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:22:14 +0000

Hi! The csv file is not working on my computer. Do you have doc or exel-file you could send me? Thanks! ]]>

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:53:17 +0000

Never mind…that’s the same doc as the article. Anyhow, someone’s put the doc up as a Google Doc so it’s available for download now but thanks for preparing a csv file for it. :D ]]>

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:50:34 +0000

I’ve obtained a googledoc which is a manual for administering the test to generate the valencies in ANEW. It seems to contain the entire list as well only with their SD measures along the 3 dimensions. I will extract the list from that and see if it compares to yours. I hold a doctorate but work in industry so wasn’t able to grab a copy directly. They seem to be keen on not having this list used for any practical purpose. ]]>

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:26:55 +0000

Well, I got an earlier version of the data. But I think it’s silly to restrict access to it. If you’re going to charge for it, that’s one thing — but I have less patience for demanding credentials. ]]>

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:07:43 +0000

Wait, so did you get the data you wanted, or not? As a linguist, I have never heard of ANEW, and I am also relatively certain it’s “kind of bullshit.” ]]>

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:07:49 +0000

They’re suggestive names to be sure. But check out the papers — they explain what the dimensions mean. It’s not quite as titillating as it might seem. ]]>

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:11:54 +0000

It is too bad that you are not going to pursuit this project. It seems like it might be an interesting feature to build on top of Managing News where it can collect statements and articles from all sorts of sources, determine the average sentiment across them all, and then show how each article/statement compares to the norm.

What is up with those column names though? Combining arousal, dominance, and valence sounds like some kinky atomic physics.

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By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:57:46 +0000

Well, it’s not quite as bad as that: it looks to me like they manually vet the submissions to make sure they’re from professors or postdocs. I think that makes it worse, though. ]]>

By: mike d

mike d — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:27:45 +0000

This “paywall” has the same problem the Times Select one did – just about anyone who is a college graduate can get a .edu email address along with paying their alumni dues. ]]>