Slanting existing text with Valentino
Marco Guerini, Carlo Strapparava, Oliviero Stock · 2011
In this paper we present a tool for valence shifting of natural language texts, named Valentino (VALENced Text INOculator). Valentino can modify existing textual expressions towards more positively or negatively valenced versions. To this end we built specific resources, gathering valenced terms that are semantically or contextually connected to the original one, and implemented strategies that use these resources in the substitution process. Valentino is meant to be a modular component. It is non-domain specific and it requires as its input a coefficient that represents the desired valence for the final expression.