Constructing a lexicon of action

A Supervised Method for Constructing Sentiment Lexicon in Persian Language

Due to the increasing growth of digital content on the internet and social media, sentiment analysis problem is one of the emerging fields. This problem deals with information extraction and knowledge discovery from textual data using natural language processing has attracted the attention of many researchers. Construction of sentiment lexicon as a valuable language resource is a one of the imp...

Sentiment Analysis Using a Novel Human Computation Game

In this paper, we propose a novel human computation game for sentiment analysis. Our game aims at annotating sentiments of a collection of text documents and simultaneously constructing a highly discriminative lexicon of positive and negative phrases. Human computation games have been widely used in recent years to acquire human knowledge and use it to solve problems which are infeasible to sol...

Constructing a Constructional MWE Lexicon for Psycho-Conceptual Annotation:

Constructing An English Valency Lexicon

This paper presents the English valency lexicon EngValLex, built within the Functional Generative Description framework. The form of the lexicon, as well as the process of its semi-automatic creation is described. The lexicon describes valency for verbs and also includes links to other lexical sources, namely PropBank. Basic statistics about the lexicon are given. The lexicon will be later used...

A Morphological Lexicon for the Persian Language

We introduce PerLex, a large-coverage and freely-available morphological lexicon for the Persian language. We describe the main features of the Persian morphology, and the way we have represented it within the Alexina formalism, on which PerLex is based. We focus on the methodology we used for constructing lexical entries from various sources, as well as the problems related to typographic norm...