Adverbs sentiment study

The paper proposes an approach to determine correspondences betweenthe relevant pairs of Russian emotive adverbs. Chains ofquasi-synonymous words linking the adverbs are constructed. An important feature of antonyms is the fact that negatively-oriented antonyms are marked with respect to the positive ones. The different methods for the determination of semantic metrics in the Osgood space are described. Usage of geodesic distance between two arbitrary words enables introduction of unambiguous metrics over the set of Russian adverbs. Coordinates of antonyms and those synonyms which connect antonymous pairs are displayed in the two-dimensional space.