Uma proposta de representação linguístico-computacional da negação com vistas à análise de sentimentos em contexto de ensino e aprendizagem on-line

Abstract

The thematic of this work establishes a dialogue between the fields of distance learning, linguistics, and natural language processing (NLP). The proposal is to answer the following guiding questions: (i) how does the negation of emotion manifest itself on the surface of the language? and (ii) which computational rules express the negation of emotion? The methodology of this work follows the proposed by Dias-da-Silva (2006), who organizes the works in NLP in three complementary domains of investigation: (i) linguistics, (ii) computational-linguistics, and (iii) computational. In the first domain, the linguistic domain, the phenomenon of denial and its use is described. In the linguistic-computational domain, we will represent the perceived patterns in order to guide the experts to encode these rules in computational language. In order to propose the linguistic-computational description of the forms of expression of negation, through a corpus built in a distance learning context based on daily reports and students’ forums, we take as a base the theory approached by Maria Helena de Moura Neves (2011). The computational phase which forecasts the implementation of the system is pertinent to the computing technician and it will not be contemplated in this work, but it will be performed by a partner research group in collaboration with the GVDasa company. Altogether, 11 linguistic-computational rules were created that make it possible to account for the linguistic properties identified when answering the research question (i). The rules aim to contribute with a computational system to locate the phenomenon of negation in texts and verify the existence of inversions of polarity and emotion.