Corpus Creation for Sentiment Analysis in Code-Mixed Tamil-English Text

Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Vigneshwaran Muralidaran, Ruba Priyadharshini, John Philip McCrae


Abstract
Understanding the sentiment of a comment from a video or an image is an essential task in many applications. Sentiment analysis of a text can be useful for various decision-making processes. One such application is to analyse the popular sentiments of videos on social media based on viewer comments. However, comments from social media do not follow strict rules of grammar, and they contain mixing of more than one language, often written in non-native scripts. Non-availability of annotated code-mixed data for a low-resourced language like Tamil also adds difficulty to this problem. To overcome this, we created a gold standard Tamil-English code-switched, sentiment-annotated corpus containing 15,744 comment posts from YouTube. In this paper, we describe the process of creating the corpus and assigning polarities. We present inter-annotator agreement and show the results of sentiment analysis trained on this corpus as a benchmark.
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2020.sltu-1.28
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Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU) and Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages (CCURL)
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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Dorothee Beermann, Laurent Besacier, Sakriani Sakti, Claudia Soria
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SLTU
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European Language Resources association
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202–210
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English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.sltu-1.28
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Vigneshwaran Muralidaran, Ruba Priyadharshini, and John Philip McCrae. 2020. Corpus Creation for Sentiment Analysis in Code-Mixed Tamil-English Text. In Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU) and Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages (CCURL), pages 202–210, Marseille, France. European Language Resources association.
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Corpus Creation for Sentiment Analysis in Code-Mixed Tamil-English Text (Chakravarthi et al., SLTU 2020)
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