HisNet: A Polarity Lexicon based on WordNet for Emotion Analysis

Merve Özçelik, Bilge Nas Arıcan, Özge Bakay, Elif Sarmış, Özlem Ergelen, Nilgün Güler Bayezit, Olcay Taner Yıldız


Abstract
Dictionary-based methods in sentiment analysis have received scholarly attention recently, the most comprehensive examples of which can be found in English. However, many other languages lack polarity dictionaries, or the existing ones are small in size as in the case of SentiTurkNet, the first and only polarity dictionary in Turkish. Thus, this study aims to extend the content of SentiTurkNet by comparing the two available WordNets in Turkish, namely KeNet and TR-wordnet of BalkaNet. To this end, a current Turkish polarity dictionary has been created relying on 76,825 synsets matching KeNet, where each synset has been annotated with three polarity labels, which are positive, negative and neutral. Meanwhile, the comparison of KeNet and TR-wordnet of BalkaNet has revealed their weaknesses such as the repetition of the same senses, lack of necessary merges of the items belonging to the same synset and the presence of redundant narrower versions of synsets, which are discussed in light of their potential to the improvement of the current lexical databases of Turkish.
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2021.gwc-1.18
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Proceedings of the 11th Global Wordnet Conference
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January
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2021
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University of South Africa (UNISA)
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Piek Vossen, Christiane Fellbaum
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GWC
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SIGLEX
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Global Wordnet Association
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157–165
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Merve Özçelik, Bilge Nas Arıcan, Özge Bakay, Elif Sarmış, Özlem Ergelen, Nilgün Güler Bayezit, and Olcay Taner Yıldız. 2021. HisNet: A Polarity Lexicon based on WordNet for Emotion Analysis. In Proceedings of the 11th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 157–165, University of South Africa (UNISA). Global Wordnet Association.
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