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Main Authors: Comstock, Lindy, Sharma, Priyanshu, Belov, Mikhail
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18642
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author Comstock, Lindy
Sharma, Priyanshu
Belov, Mikhail
author_facet Comstock, Lindy
Sharma, Priyanshu
Belov, Mikhail
contents This paper illustrates how the overall sentiment of a text may be shifted in translation and the implications for automated sentiment analyses, particularly those that utilize machine translation and assess findings via semantic similarity metrics. While human and machine translation will produce more lemmas that fit the expected frequency of sentiment in the target language, only machine translation will also reduce the overall semantic field of the text, particularly in regard to words with epistemic content.
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spellingShingle Contextual effects of sentiment deployment in human and machine translation
Comstock, Lindy
Sharma, Priyanshu
Belov, Mikhail
Computation and Language
This paper illustrates how the overall sentiment of a text may be shifted in translation and the implications for automated sentiment analyses, particularly those that utilize machine translation and assess findings via semantic similarity metrics. While human and machine translation will produce more lemmas that fit the expected frequency of sentiment in the target language, only machine translation will also reduce the overall semantic field of the text, particularly in regard to words with epistemic content.
title Contextual effects of sentiment deployment in human and machine translation
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18642