“Buon appetito!” - Analyzing Happiness in Italian Tweets
Pierpaolo Basile, Nicole Novielli · Accademia University Press eBooks · 2018
We report the results of an exploratory study aimed at investigating the language of happiness in Italian tweets. Specifically, we conduct a time-wise analysis of the happiness load of tweets by leveraging a lexicon of happiness extracted from 8.6M tweets. Furthermore, we report the results of a statistical linguistic analysis aimed at extracting the most frequent concepts associated with the happy and sad words in our lexicon.