Evaluating a New Danish Sentiment Resource: the Danish Sentiment Lexicon, DSL

Nina Schneidermann, Bolette Pedersen


Abstract
In this paper, we evaluate a new sentiment lexicon for Danish, the Danish Sentiment Lexicon (DSL), to gain input regarding how to carry out the final adjustments of the lexicon. A feature of the lexicon that differentiates it from other sentiment resources for Danish is that it is linked to a large number of other Danish lexical resources via the DDO lemma and sense inventory and the LLOD via the Danish wordnet, DanNet. We perform our evaluation on four datasets labeled with sentiments. In addition, we compare the lexicon against two existing benchmarks for Danish: the Afinn and the Sentida resources. We observe that DSL performs mostly comparably to the existing resources, but that more fine-grained explorations need to be done in order to fully exploit its possibilities given its linking properties.
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2022.salld-1.4
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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Linguistic Linked Data
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Ilan Kernerman, Sara Carvalho, Carlos A. Iglesias, Rachele Sprugnoli
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European Language Resources Association
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Nina Schneidermann and Bolette Pedersen. 2022. Evaluating a New Danish Sentiment Resource: the Danish Sentiment Lexicon, DSL. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Linguistic Linked Data, pages 19–24, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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