Twitter as a Comparable Corpus to build Multilingual Affective Lexicons

International audience The main issue of any lexicon-based sentiment analysis system is the lack of affective lexicons. Such lexicons contain lists of words annotated with their affective classes. There exist some number of such resources but only for few languages and often for a small number of af...

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Main Authors: Fraisse, Amel, Paroubek, Patrick
Other Authors: Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Sorbonne Université - UFR d'Ingénierie (UFR 919), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Saclay (COmUE)
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2014
Subjects:
Affective Lexicon
Comparable Corpus
Sentiment Analysis
[INFO.INFO-TT]Computer Science [cs]/Document and Text Processing
Iceland
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-01615963
https://hal.science/hal-01615963/document
https://hal.science/hal-01615963/file/BUCC14.pdf
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Summary:International audience The main issue of any lexicon-based sentiment analysis system is the lack of affective lexicons. Such lexicons contain lists of words annotated with their affective classes. There exist some number of such resources but only for few languages and often for a small number of affective classes, generally restricted to two classes (positive and negative). In this paper we propose to use Twitter as a comparable corpus to generate a fine-grained and multilingual affective lexicons. Our approach is based in the co-occurence between English and target affective words in the same emotional corpus. And it can be applied to any number of target languages. In this paper we describe the building of affective lexicons for seven languages (en, fr, de, it, es, pt, ru).

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