Detecting Emotive Sentences with Pattern-based Language Modelling

This paper presents our research in detection of emotive (emotionally loaded) sentences. The task is defined as a text classification problem with an assumption that emotive sentences stand out both lexically and grammatically. The assumption is verified exper- imentally. The experiment is based on n-grams as well as more sophisticated patterns with disjointed elements. To deal with the sophisticated patterns a novel language modelling algorithm based on the idea of language combinatorics is applied. The results of experiments are explained with the standard means of Precision, Recall and balanced F-score. The algorithm also provides a refined list of most frequent sophisticated patterns typical for both emotive and non-emotive context.