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  <Title>Sydney, July 2006. c(c)2006 Association for Computational Linguistics Towards a validated model for affective classification of texts</Title>
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2 Corpus
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have collected from Livejournal2 a total of 346723 weblogs (mood-annotated by authors) in 2http://www.livejournal.com.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> English, from which almost half are annotated with a mood belonging to one of the four quadrants, described as follows: Quadrant1 bellicose, tense, alarmed, envious, hateful, angry, enraged, de ant, annoyed, jealous, indignant, frustrated, distressed, disgusted, suspicious, discontented, bitter, insulted, distrustful, startled, contemptuous and impatient.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Quadrant2 apathetic, disappointed, miserable, dissatis ed, taken aback, worried, languid, feel guilt, ashamed, gloomy, sad, uncomfortable, embarrassed, melancholic, depress, desperate, hesitant, bored, wavering, droopy, tired, insecured, anxious, lonely and doubtful.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Quadrant3 feel well, impressed, pleased, amourous, astonished, glad, content, hopeful, solemn, attentive, longing, relaxed, serious, serene, content, at ease, friendly, satis ed, calm, contemplative, polite, pensive, peaceful, conscientious, empathic, reverent and sleepy.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> Quadrant4 happy, ambitious, amused, adventurous, aroused, astonished, triumphant, excited,  conceited, self con dent, courageous, feeling superior, enthusiastic, light hearthed, determined, passionate, expectant, interested, joyous and delighted. null In our experiments, we used 15662 from quadrant Q1 (see Figure 1), 54940 from Q2, 49779 from Q3 and 35634 from Q4.</Paragraph>
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