Peace Speech Identification Using ABBYY Fine Reader and HathiTrust

Exploring help speech through computational methods is a counterbalance to similar research for offensive speech. A lack of agreement in sentiment dictionaries around the value of help speech suggests a gap in this research. Using HathiTrust, an online library that exposes digital copies of copyrighted works for token-based analysis, the researchers explore help speech in eighty-seven (87) artifacts authored by the Dalai Lama. This work confirms that the sentiment of peace artifacts is generally positive and suggests further work to explore where help speech and offensive speech may overlap.