Continuous sentiment scores for literary and multilingual contexts

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14620v1
• Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:18:13 GMT
• Title: Continuous sentiment scores for literary and multilingual contexts
• Authors: Laurits Lyngbaek, Pascale Feldkamp, Yuri Bizzoni, Kristoffer Nielbo, Kenneth Enevoldsen,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a novel continuous sentiment scoring method based on concept vector projection, trained on multilingual literary data.<n>Our approach outperforms existing tools on English and Danish texts, producing sentiment scores whose distribution closely matches human ratings.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Sentiment Analysis is widely used to quantify sentiment in text, but its application to literary texts poses unique challenges due to figurative language, stylistic ambiguity, as well as sentiment evocation strategies. Traditional dictionary-based tools often underperform, especially for low-resource languages, and transformer models, while promising, typically output coarse categorical labels that limit fine-grained analysis. We introduce a novel continuous sentiment scoring method based on concept vector projection, trained on multilingual literary data, which more effectively captures nuanced sentiment expressions across genres, languages, and historical periods. Our approach outperforms existing tools on English and Danish texts, producing sentiment scores whose distribution closely matches human ratings, enabling more accurate analysis and sentiment arc modeling in literature.

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