Terms Of Sentiment Research Articles

Sentiment asset pricing model with consumption

We present an asset pricing model by incorporating investor sentiment. The sentiment equilibrium price could be decomposed to the rational term and the sentiment term, and the investor sentiment has a systematic and significant impact on the risky asset price. In the model, the sentiment term has a wealth-weighted average structure and the investor's wealth proportion could amplify the sentiment shock on the asset price. The model could offer a partial explanation of some financial anomalies in the stock market: the phenomenon of savings transfer to the stock market, pricing bubble and high volatility.

Global synthesis of Searchlight reports using knowledge discovery and visualization

– The purpose of this paper is to synthesize trends, issues, and policies related to development using a database of Searchlight reports. The paper seeks to utilize three techniques – conceptual tree visualizations to uncover patterns impacting regional development; network analysis to compare and contrast urbanization in South Asia and Southern Africa; and sentiment analysis to assess various sectors of development that elicit positive and negative reactions., – The paper presents a synthesis based on a unique database that was developed using a novel scoring scheme to quantify the development concepts presented in 312 Searchlight articles in a period between September 2009 and December 2010., – Primary and secondary concepts define an ontology that can be visualized to provide an overall synthesis of a subset of the Searchlight database. Social issues were significant in Asia, climate change narrative in Africa, and governance in Latin America. In terms of sentiments, negative sentiments tended to overshadow optimism. However, technology and knowledge was seen as a panacea along with social entrepreneurship in some regions of Asia. There is also a realization that newer issues related to climate change, resource and energy depletion, food insecurity and the current financial crisis will exacerbate present difficult conditions., – The paper suggests that qualitative data presented in various articles could be synthesized and visualized using data mining techniques. This methodology provides a comprehensive way to capture knowledge and insights provided by development experts to coherently share and discuss the multitude of common global challenges of the twenty‐first century., – The visualizations and data mining techniques are developed for this study context. The approach can add value by tracking and monitoring current and emerging trends relevant to the Foundation's strategic framework, operational initiatives, and areas of work. Parts of this paper have been presented in a previous publication (see www.bu.edu/pardee/publications‐library/connecting‐the‐dots/).

War stories: suffering and sacrifice in the Civil War North

The American Civil is often seen as the first modern war, not least because of its immense suffering. Yet unlike later conflicts, it did not produce an outpouring of disillusionment or cynicism, as most people continued to portray the war in highly sentimental and patriotic terms. While scholars typically dismiss this everyday writing as simplistic or naive, Frances M. Clarke argues that we need to reconsider the letters, diaries, songs, and journalism penned by Union soldiers and their caregivers to fully understand the war's impact and meaning. In War Stories, Clarke revisits the most common stories that average Northerners told in hopes of redeeming their suffering and loss - stories that enabled people to make sense of their hardship, and to express their beliefs about religion, community, and personal character. From tales of Union soldiers who died heroically to stories of tireless volunteers who exemplified the Republic's virtues, War Stories sheds new light on this transitional moment in the history of war, emotional culture, and American civic life.

VoiceYourView: anytime, anyplace, anywhere user participation

Citizens are increasingly called upon to comment on issues that directly concern them. However, such consultations may be tokenistic [1] as they occur with limited respondents, or may be at a time, or in a format which is inconvenient to the user. To encourage wider participation, the VoiceYourView project (vYv) has developed a system allowing people to make comments in a manner, time and place convenient to them. A real world trial of the prototype system was conducted at Coventry University campus to explore issues related to the system's usability and usage, as a means of enabling campus users to comment on their environment. Members of the university population were invited to comment on the university estate using one of five technologies (e-mail, online form, iPhone app, SMS message, or electronic kiosk). Although the immediate application area in this case was the design of public spaces, the approach can be transferred to other domains and thus provide a new way of gathering user information. Submitted comments were automatically analysed in terms of theme, sentiment, location and actionability and displayed online in a 2D visualisation. It is argued that that online data collection (crowd sourcing and skimming social networks) may provide a rich source of information for future ergonomists.

Tramp: Sentiment and the Homeless Man in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian City

The recent rehabilitation of sentiment as a topic worthy of scholarly engagement tends to focus on the work of Adam Smith and early to mid-Victorian visual and literary cultures. Focusing on the League of Welldoers, a Liverpool charity that catered for houseless men, this essay considers sentimentality as a tool for stimulating compassion for one of the most controversial and potentially unsympathetic groups among the outcast poor. The essay identifies how late-Victorian and Edwardian philanthropy deployed sentiment as a tool to motivate practical compassion and demonstrate the ways in which sentiment could be politically charged. The essay examines the League's attempts to imagine the tramp in sentimental terms in a political and social context that regarded male vagrancy as a ‘problem’ and understood able-bodied men as breadwinners. It highlights continuities in the sentimental tradition from the heady days of Dickens's fiction: the emphasis on physiological sensation to advance a notion of common human...

Sentiment strength detection in short informal text

AbstractA huge number of informal messages are posted every day in social network sites, blogs, and discussion forums. Emotions seem to be frequently important in these texts for expressing friendship, showing social support or as part of online arguments. Algorithms to identify sentiment and sentiment strength are needed to help understand the role of emotion in this informal communication and also to identify inappropriate or anomalous affective utterances, potentially associated with threatening behavior to the self or others. Nevertheless, existing sentiment detection algorithms tend to be commercially oriented, designed to identify opinions about products rather than user behaviors. This article partly fills this gap with a new algorithm, SentiStrength, to extract sentiment strength from informal English text, using new methods to exploit the de facto grammars and spelling styles of cyberspace. Applied to MySpace comments and with a lookup table of term sentiment strengths optimized by machine learning, SentiStrength is able to predict positive emotion with 60.6% accuracy and negative emotion with 72.8% accuracy, both based upon strength scales of 1–5. The former, but not the latter, is better than baseline and a wide range of general machine learning approaches.

‘Outlandish Love’: Marriage and Immigration in City Comedies

This article questions the orthodox reading of early English city comedies that such plays exhibit intense national or proto-national fervor, especially articulated in terms of anti-alien sentiment. A close examination of The Dutch Courtesan and Englishmen for My Money shows that English playgoers were keen to see their cosmopolitan city staged. Moreover, these plays suggest that when it came to European immigrants to England, status and wealth were far more important to the English than considerations of birthplace and ethnicity.

Sentimentalism: Its Scope and Limits

The subject of this paper is sentimentalism. In broad terms this is the view that value concepts, moral concepts, practical reasons—some or all of these—can be analysed in terms of feeling, sentiment or emotion. More specifically, the paper discusses the following theses: (i) there are reasons to feel (‘evaluative’ reasons) that are not reducible to practical or epistemic reasons (ii) value is analysable in terms of these reasons to feel. (iii) all practical reasons are in one way or another grounded in evaluative reasons. (i) and (ii) are accepted while (iii) is rejected.

Limited access to an individual’s mental content: a constraint on the strength of our knowledge in courts

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Opposition to Civil Rights for Legal Migrants in Central and Eastern Europe

We set out to answer three questions: (a) to what extent do (former) EU candidate countries differ from Western European countries regarding opposition to civil rights for legal migrants? (b) to what extent do the (former) EU candidate countries differ among themselves in terms of this particular anti-immigrant sentiment, that is, opposition to civil rights for legal migrants? and (c) to what extent can we explain such cross-national differences, considering cross-national demographic or economic conditions, taking into account individual differences? We found that former EU candidate countries were really on comparable levels as EU member states in terms of opposition to civil rights for legal migrants. We found rather strong differences with countries like Estonia, Latvia and Hungary standing out, whereas countries like Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Turkey showed low levels. We found that these differences were (rather strongly) explained by the migrant stock in the country. Although none of the other national characteristics turned out to reach significance, their parameters were in the direction we proposed.

Hubris and melancholy in multinational states

ABSTRACT. The article sets out to explore the rather different roles that hubris and melancholy can play in the relations between majority and minority nationalities within multinational states. In the case of majority‐type nationalities, there is a sense of being a Staatsvolk, a feeling reinforced by linguistic, cultural, geographical, and political characteristics associated with the larger nation‐state. There may also be a sense of pride caught up with the larger identity between the nation‐state and the empire with which it is associated. For their part, minority‐type nationalities have been more prone to express their national sentiment in melancholic terms. Hence a tendency to dwell on lost battles of the past, on suppressed rebellions, on recurrent threats of assimilation and linguistic extinction. There may be elements both of hubris and of melancholy to national sentiment in multinational states, and the dialectic between the two colours their overall political development.

Continuing commentary: Revitalizing Shame: Some Reflections on `Changing Idioms of Shame: Expressions of Disgrace and Dishonour in the Narratives of Turkish Women Living in Denmark'

Throughout many studies, shame is approached not solely as a personal or individual sentiment or emotion, but also as a collective social and cultural preoccupation. Many studies also have asserted that shame is best understood in terms of its assumed opposite, honor, for example, as represented in so-called `honor/shame' complexes of certain regions such as the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Critical responses to these studies have included efforts to represent more balanced, multiple voices and perspectives concerning shame and related sentiments: for example, emphasis of women's viewpoints and more transcultural contexts. Mirdal's article contributes to these efforts. This commentary discusses some challenges of placing shame in wider contexts of broader concerns in cultural theory, moving toward more nuanced, processual and dynamic portrayals of cultural and social practices. Shame needs to be analyzed in terms of both intimate and subjective sentiments, on the one hand, and politics and domination, on the other. More nuanced analysis yields insights into modernity, thereby detaching analysis of shame from some previous tendencies to associate this sentiment solely with tradition and the past. This commentary also argues, however, that there remain semantic and pragmatic problems of intentionality and agency. Fundamental to understanding shame, therefore, is detailed analysis of its nuanced meanings, as well as its effects in different social encounters.

An empirical study of sentiment analysis for chinese documents

Up to now, there are very few researches conducted on sentiment classification for Chinese documents. In order to remedy this deficiency, this paper presents an empirical study of sentiment categorization on Chinese documents. Four feature selection methods (MI, IG, CHI and DF) and five learning methods (centroid classifier, K-nearest neighbor, winnow classifier, Naïve Bayes and SVM) are investigated on a Chinese sentiment corpus with a size of 1021 documents. The experimental results indicate that IG performs the best for sentimental terms selection and SVM exhibits the best performance for sentiment classification. Furthermore, we found that sentiment classifiers are severely dependent on domains or topics.

State party funding and patronage in post-1989 Poland

The level and scope of state financial support for Polish parties have expanded progressively since 1989, making it the main source of income for a number of them. This becomes even more evident when one considers the allowances paid to party-based parliamentary caucuses and individual parliamentarians. Appointments to state and quasi-state bodies also appear to be an important source of patronage for Polish parties. The Polish party funding regime and state patronage opportunities clearly favour ‘insiders’ and have centralized power in party leaderships. However, the Polish party system remains too unstable to conclude that a ‘cartel’ of privileged insiders is emerging, while increases in state party funding have, at most, simply reinforced existing trends in terms of party leader orientation and popular anti-party sentiment.

Forgetting the Dead in Gellert's Leben der Schwedischen Gräfin von G (1747/8)

Death in Christian Fürchtegott Gellert's Leben der schwedischen Gräfin von G (1747/48), an early German sentimental novel, is not portrayed in excessively sentimental terms. Neither is it the cornerstone for a rational bourgeois social order in which characters renounce their desires, as has been argued. On the contrary, death is conspicuous in the novel by its lack of resonance. Early eighteenth-century philosophers such as Georg Friedrich Meier used mourning to illustrate the power of the mind to reproduce, recognize, and respond emotionally to images from the past, but Gellert does not integrate psychological ideas about memory and the imagination into his work to any great extent. Instead, his novel is characterized by an aesthetics of presence which distinguishes it from later sentimental works.

Maternal Echoes: The Poetry of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore , Alphonse de Lamartine (review)

MLRy 99.1, 2004 201 Claire d'Albe. By Sophie Cottin. The original French text, ed. by Margaret Cohen. (MLA Texts and Translations) New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 2002. xxviii+158pp. $9.95. ISBN 0-87352-925-1. Claire d'Albe. By Sophie Cottin. An English translation by Margaret Cohen after the 1807 translation by Eliza Anderson Godefroy. (MLA Texts and Translations) New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 2002. xxxiii + 155 pp. $9.95. ISBN 0-87352-926-x. These two volumes are the latest in the invaluable MLA Texts and Translations series offeringkey,often neglected, texts that would otherwise be difficultto get hold of or too expensive to put on student reading lists. The dual nature of the project means that texts can be taught to a group of both French and non-French readers simultaneously, thus greatly increasing the scope of eighteenth- and early nineteenthcentury authors available to teach. Claire d'Albe (1799), Sophie Cottin's firstnovel, is an epistolary tale of adultery concluding in what Margaret Cohen deems to be the first depiction of female orgasm in polite fiction. Ethically complex, the novel plays out the traditional themes of love vs. duty and personal fulfilmentvs. collective welfare at a time when sentimentality is merging with Romanticism. Both the English version and the French original are preceded by an introduction in English sketching out Cottin's life and literary career, contemporary reactions to Claire dAlbe, key themes and moral issues, and the nature of sentimental fiction of the time. There is a bibliography of works cited followed by suggestions for further reading and a selected bibliography of Cottin's works. The English edition contains a detailed note on the translation, expanding on a paragraph from the introduction to the French original discussing the meanings sentimental terms held forthe contemporary reader. Basing the translation on a roughly contemporary one has allowed Margaret Cohen to draw on authentic sentimental vocabulary in English while updating expressions she felt to be needlessly archaic for a contemporary American audience. One aspect impossible to translate has been carefully footnoted, the shift from 'vous' to 'tu' at a crucial stage in the relationship between Claire and Frederic in Letter 18; but the subsequent shifting back from 'tu' to 'vous' to 'tu' again which reveals the state of mind of each character is referred to only in passing, so that someone reading the English version would lose some of the sense of inner struggle that a reader of French gains from the original text. This issue of nuance is one impossible to resolve. On the whole the translation reads well and makes the text available to those without French, but anyone who can read French should?it goes without saying?be encouraged to use the French original because so much of the essence of the sentimental epistolary novel lies precisely in nuance of language. Overall, though, these two volumes are a welcome addition to the number of texts by women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries readily accessible for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. University of Warwick Katherine Astbury Maternal Echoes: The Poetry ofMar celine Desbordes- Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine . By Aimee Boutin. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Asso? ciated University Presses. 2001. 246 pp. $42.50. ISBN 0-87413-727-6. In her comparative account of two French romantic poets Aimee Boutin examines Lamartine's effeminacy and Desbordes-Valmore's matriarchy in order to raise signi? ficant questions about Romanticism's relationship with the maternal and the period's underlying ideology. This is a carefully researched book that begins with an explo? ration of reception, grounding the argument for the maternal in the way in which 202 Reviews later nineteenth-century poets position themselves with respect to the mother text (Chapter i). This is developed in Chapter 2 in Hugo's figure of the echo. Boutin, in a finely tuned argument, here brings together a range of theoretical approaches to suggest that there is, in Hugo's notion of the echo, an implied interlocutor whom Lamartine seeks, only then to retreat into the self, whereas Desbordes-Valmore uses her poetic voice as a friendly echo of another, as...

Claire d’Albe by Sophie Cottin, and: Claire d’Albe by Sophie Cottin (review)

MLRy 99.1, 2004 201 Claire d'Albe. By Sophie Cottin. The original French text, ed. by Margaret Cohen. (MLA Texts and Translations) New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 2002. xxviii+158pp. $9.95. ISBN 0-87352-925-1. Claire d'Albe. By Sophie Cottin. An English translation by Margaret Cohen after the 1807 translation by Eliza Anderson Godefroy. (MLA Texts and Translations) New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 2002. xxxiii + 155 pp. $9.95. ISBN 0-87352-926-x. These two volumes are the latest in the invaluable MLA Texts and Translations series offeringkey,often neglected, texts that would otherwise be difficultto get hold of or too expensive to put on student reading lists. The dual nature of the project means that texts can be taught to a group of both French and non-French readers simultaneously, thus greatly increasing the scope of eighteenth- and early nineteenthcentury authors available to teach. Claire d'Albe (1799), Sophie Cottin's firstnovel, is an epistolary tale of adultery concluding in what Margaret Cohen deems to be the first depiction of female orgasm in polite fiction. Ethically complex, the novel plays out the traditional themes of love vs. duty and personal fulfilmentvs. collective welfare at a time when sentimentality is merging with Romanticism. Both the English version and the French original are preceded by an introduction in English sketching out Cottin's life and literary career, contemporary reactions to Claire dAlbe, key themes and moral issues, and the nature of sentimental fiction of the time. There is a bibliography of works cited followed by suggestions for further reading and a selected bibliography of Cottin's works. The English edition contains a detailed note on the translation, expanding on a paragraph from the introduction to the French original discussing the meanings sentimental terms held forthe contemporary reader. Basing the translation on a roughly contemporary one has allowed Margaret Cohen to draw on authentic sentimental vocabulary in English while updating expressions she felt to be needlessly archaic for a contemporary American audience. One aspect impossible to translate has been carefully footnoted, the shift from 'vous' to 'tu' at a crucial stage in the relationship between Claire and Frederic in Letter 18; but the subsequent shifting back from 'tu' to 'vous' to 'tu' again which reveals the state of mind of each character is referred to only in passing, so that someone reading the English version would lose some of the sense of inner struggle that a reader of French gains from the original text. This issue of nuance is one impossible to resolve. On the whole the translation reads well and makes the text available to those without French, but anyone who can read French should?it goes without saying?be encouraged to use the French original because so much of the essence of the sentimental epistolary novel lies precisely in nuance of language. Overall, though, these two volumes are a welcome addition to the number of texts by women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries readily accessible for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. University of Warwick Katherine Astbury Maternal Echoes: The Poetry ofMar celine Desbordes- Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine . By Aimee Boutin. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Asso? ciated University Presses. 2001. 246 pp. $42.50. ISBN 0-87413-727-6. In her comparative account of two French romantic poets Aimee Boutin examines Lamartine's effeminacy and Desbordes-Valmore's matriarchy in order to raise signi? ficant questions about Romanticism's relationship with the maternal and the period's underlying ideology. This is a carefully researched book that begins with an explo? ration of reception, grounding the argument for the maternal in the way in which ...

Book Review: Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century African American Evangelists

By Richard J. Douglass-Chin. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8262-1311-1. Pp. ix + 228. $34.95. Richard J. Douglass-Chin has written an important, albeit uneven, book on origins of African American women's spiritual autobiography. Certain to appeal broadly to students of African American history, literature, and culture, Preacher Woman Sings Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century African American Evangelists joins a number of recent works on awesome mystique of spiritual in black women's writings. Eight of thirteen writers examined in this detailed chronological study published texts before 1900: Jarena Lee and Zilpha Elaw (chapter two); Sojourner Truth, Rebecca Cox Jackson, and Julia A. J. Foote (respectively, chapters three through rive); Amanda B. Smith, Elizabeth Broughton, and Virginia Broughton (chapter six). The life history of a ninth woman, Belinda, stolen into bondage, forms subject of chapter one, its title (The Cruelty of Men Whose Faces Were Like Moon) taken from African native's 1787 legal petition for reparations for involuntary labor. At chapter seven Preacher Woman pivots into twentieth-century African American women's literature by examining Zora Neale Hurston's acknowledgments and transformations of sacred-blues black traditions of modern novelist's literary foremothers. The eighth chapter reads invocation and deployment of spirituality in recent novels by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and late Toni Cade Bambara. Specifically, book attends to oppositional discourses that emerge at intersection of ecstasy, orality, Western literacy, and African expressivity. Douglass-Chin cogently combines analyses of blessed and blues to reclaim evangelist as a folk signifier and to ameliorate its definition so that the evangelists may all be seen as blues `bad' women [...] cut from a more pious cloth than their secular singing sisters (10). Too frequently Preacher Woman drops thread of blues matron and blues matrix as method and trope. However, a more urgent problem undermines Douglass-Chin's achievement: his study misrepresents primacy of sentimentalism as deployed by both African- and Anglo-American women in nineteenth century. It appears that Douglass-Chin perceives early black women's blues to be at odds with sentimentality. Indeed, Douglass-Chin insufficiently recognizes sentimental strategies, contending in introduction that, refusing to employ sentimental form and content of so many nineteenth-century women's texts, majority of black female evangelists' works were ignored and bypassed on literary market and simply fell out of circulation (14; my emphasis). The relatively brief shelf life of most black holy women's writings, however, had more to do with poverty, illiteracy, and fallacies about black and female intelligence--all institutionalized by white patriarchy--than with their authors' failure to conform to sentimental conventions of more lucrative narratives. Moreover, rhetoric of one Baptist missionary's autobiography, The Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince (not cited in Preacher Woman) discloses deep ambivalence about propriety of sentimentalizing black life. Significantly, Prince's Life first appeared in 1850 and was reissued at least twice--in 1853 and 1856. As such, it is representative of black women's spiritual texts. An apparent bias against sentimentalism undercuts Preacher Woman most conspicuously in chapter rive, in which Douglass-Chin misreads Foote's combined engagement and subversion of sentimental pedagogy in A Brand Plucked from Fire. Because Preacher Woman glaringly omits recent scholarship on role of sacred in early American sentimentalism, it cannot elucidate thirteen authors' codification of Christian morality and theology in sentimental terms. …

THE ECHO OF A SENTIMENTAL JURISPRUDENCE

This article revisits what the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge termed the ‘rage of metaphysics’, the grand intellectual engagement that defined the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Enlightenment. It does so in order to retrieve an alternative jurisprudence, one that described itself as much in terms of sentiment as of sense. It is suggested that one of the most striking expressions of this jurisprudence can be found in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. This attempt to retrieve a sentimental jurisprudence chimes with a wider intellectual movement, headed by the likes of Richard Rorty and Martha Nussbaum, which seeks to reinvest a ‘new’ humanism in both domestic and trans-national legal and political order. It speaks more particularly to recent debates surrounding the nature of human and civil rights, and enjoys an added resonance in the context of recent attempts to fashion a jurisprudence of ‘reconciliation’ in South Africa and elsewhere.

A Report on the March 2001 Investor Sentiment Survey

Steep declines in the value of publicly traded stocks in the first quarter of 2001 left many market observers speculating whether investor sentiment had undergone a significant and negative change, and whether investors would subsequently flee stocks in favor of less volatile investment options. A survey study of investor expectations and confidence was conducted in late March 2001 to capture investor sentiment and compare it with similar measures taken in surveys conducted in 1998 during a period of rapid market incline. The surprising results are that there are only minor differences in investor sentiment in terms of: (a) confidence in the long and intermediate performance of the stock markets; (b) composition of stocks versus bonds in their portfolios; (c) the intention to buy on the dips; (d) the amount of risk investors plan to undertake. The high level of investor confidence observed in 2001 (in spite of a severe drop in market value) is potentially accounted for by psychological processes that influence investor judgment. These processes include reliance on image-driven affective evaluations of common stocks that contribute to excessive optimism.