MEmoFC: introducing the Multilingual Emotional Football Corpus

Abstract

This paper introduces a new corpus of paired football match reports, the Multilingual Emotional Football Corpus, (MEmoFC), which has been manually collected from English, German, and Dutch websites of individual football clubs to investigate the way different emotional states (e.g. happiness for winning and disappointment for losing) are realized in written language. In addition to the reports, it also contains the statistics for the selected matches. MEmoFC is a corpus consisting of comparable subcorpora since the authors of the texts report on the same event from two different perspectives—the winner’s and the loser’s side, and from an arguably more neutral perspective in tied matches. We demonstrate how the corpus can be used to investigate the influence of affect on the reports through different approaches and illustrate how game outcome influences (1) references to the own team and the opponent, and (2) the use of positive and negative emotion terms in the different languages. The MEmoFC corpus, together with the analyzed aspects of emotional language will open up new approaches for targeted automatic generation of texts.

A review on sentiment analysis and emotion detection from text

“…Braun et al. ( 2021 ) constructed a multilingual corpus called MEmoFC, which stands for Multilingual Emotional Football Corpus, consisting of football reports from English, Dutch and German Web sites and match statistics crawled from Goal.com. The corpus was created by creating two metadata tables: one explaining details of a match like a date, place, participation teams, etc., and the second table consisted of abbreviations of football clubs.…”

Klatsche oder Kantersieg? Framesemantische Analysen zur Perspektivierung in Fußballspielberichten

“…Die folgenden Analysen stützen sich auf ein Korpus von 582 vereinseigenen Spielberichten zu sämtlichen Bundesligapartien der Saison 2019/20. Dabei wurden nach dem Vorbild von Osefjell Ebeling (2019) sowie Braun et al (2021), die vergleichbare Korpora für verschiede Ligen in England, Deutschland, den Niederlanden und Norwegen erstellt haben, zu jedem Spiel die Spielberichte von den Homepages der jeweils beteiligten Vereine erfasst. Da einige Vereine nicht zu jedem Spiel Berichte publiziert haben, fällt das Korpus gegenüber der eigentlichen Gesamtzahl von 612 Spielberichten etwas geringer aus.…”