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Lexicons for Sentiment, Affect, and Connotation

Jurafsky & Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3rd ed. draft, ch. 23

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23.2 Available sentiment and affect lexicons

  1. Name binary positive/negative sentiment lexicons.
    The General Inquirer (oldest, 1966, from content analysis), the MPQA Subjectivity lexicon (also labels strongly/weakly subjective), and the Hu & Liu (2004) polarity lexicon (from product reviews, bootstrapped from WordNet).
  2. What is the NRC VAD lexicon?
    Scores for valence, arousal and dominance for about 20,000 words (Mohammad 2018), e.g. high valence vacation, low torture; high arousal enraged, low napping; high dominance powerful, low weak.
  3. What is EmoLex?
    The NRC Word-Emotion Association Lexicon: binary associations of about 14,000 words with Plutchik’s 8 emotions plus positive/negative, e.g. reward: anticipation, joy, surprise, trust, positive.
  4. What does the NRC Emotion/Affect Intensity Lexicon add?
    Real-valued association scores (rather than binary) for anger, fear, joy and sadness, e.g. outraged is very high on anger, nurture very low.
  5. What is LIWC?
    Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count: 73 hand-built lexicons for social-psychological tasks, with categories like positive and negative emotion, anger, sadness, insight, inhibition, family, negation. Entries may be prefixes (appreciat*).
  6. What other hand-built affective lexicons exist besides sentiment?
    The General Inquirer’s dimensions (strong/weak, active/passive, overstated/understated; pleasure, pain, virtue, vice…) and concreteness ratings (Brysbaert et al.): crowdsourced 1–5 ratings, e.g. banana 5, belief about 1.

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