PerSent: A freely available persian sentiment lexicon

Kia Dashtipour, Amir Hussain, Qiang Zhou, Alexander Gelbukh, Ahmad Y.A. Hawalah, Erik Cambria

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Abstract

People need to know other people’s opinions to make well-informed decisions to buy products or services. Companies and organizations need to understand people’s attitude towards their products and services and use feedback from the customers to improve their products. Sentiment analysis techniques address these needs. While the majority of Internet users are not English speakers, most research papers in the sentiment-analysis field focus on English; resources for other languages are scarce. In this paper, we introduce a Persian sentiment lexicon, which consists of 1500 words along with their part-of-speech tags and polarity scores. We have used two machine-learning algorithms to evaluate the performance of this resource on a sentiment analysis task. The lexicon is freely available and can be downloaded from our website.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems - 8th International Conference, BICS 2016, Proceedings
EditorsCheng-Lin Liu, Yi Zeng, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Kay Chen Tan, Bin Luo, Amir Hussain
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages310-320
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783319496849
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event8th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2016 - Beijing, China
Duration: 28 Nov 201630 Nov 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10023 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period28/11/1630/11/16

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