Dr Sentiment Creates SentiWordNet(s) for Indian Languages Involv- ing Internet Population

The discipline where sentiment / opinion / emotion has been identified and classified in human written text is well known as sentiment analysis. A typical computational approach to sentiment analysis starts with prior polarity lexicons where entries are tagged with their prior out of context polarity as human beings perceive using their cognitive knowledge. Till date, all research efforts found in sentiment analysis literature deal mostly with English texts. In this article, we propose an interactive gaming (Dr Sentiment) technology to create and validate SentiWordNet for three Indian languages, Bengali, Hindi and Telugu by involving Internet population. Dr Sentiment is an online game introduces a fictitious character, interact with players using series of questions and finally reveal the behavioral or sentimental status of any player and store the lexicons as the players polarized during playing. A number of automatic, semiautomatic and manual validations and evaluation methodologies have been adopted to measure the coverage and credibility of the developed SentiWordNet(s).