Corpus Linguistic tools, TP and mood

[janMato]

I found this site which reports the percent of words that fall into certain semantic categories and compares it to various corpora:

http://www.liwc.net/

I put one of my blog posts into the above tool and found out:

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LIWC dimension 	                Me    - Personal Texts - Formal Texts
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Self-references (I, me, my)       1.15    11.4             4.2
Social words                      2.31    9.5               8.0
Positive emotions                 1.44 	2.7               2.6
Negative emotions                 3.17 	2.6               1.6
Overall cognitive words           4.90 	7.8               5.4
Articles (a, an, the)             6.34 	5.0               7.2
Big words (> 6 letters)           18.16  13.1 	        19.6

The ratio of positive to negative emotion words seems like a good metric for monitoring mood disorders in diary writing.

Because the tp lexicon is so small, it seems like a similar sentiment metric could be written for toki pona after the words have been divided up among the above categories. Here is a complete list of categoriesthat the linked tool uses.

Also, as a point of design, this would indicated to be useful, a diary language would need *both* positive and negative words, so maybe apeja, pake, monsuta, ike have roles in a language for detecting good and bad moods so that something could be done about them.

[janKipo]

apeja? pake?

[janMato]

apeja and pake are apocrypha that jan Sonja wrote in her 'talk' section on the wiki.

apeja is verbally attack, shame, hurt, dishonor, give someone grief about something, etc-
ref: http://en.tokipona.org/wiki/Talk:apeja

pake is block, halt, stop, etc., etc -
ref: http://en.tokipona.org/w/index.php?ns0= ... ced+search

Both meanings are approximate because jan Sonja never went past posting the brief notes above.

[janSilipu]

Thanks. I forget to check the talk sections because so little of it emerges for use.