Neutral Score Detection in Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis: The Quartile-based Approach

Marco Vassallo, Giuliano Gabrieli, Valerio Basile, Cristina Bosco


Abstract
The neutrality detection in Sentiment Analysis (SA) still constitutes an unsolved and debated issue. This work proposes an empirical method based on the quartiles of the polarity distribution for a lexicon-based SA approach. Our experiments are based on the Italian linguistic resource MAL (Morphologically-inflected Affective Lexicon) and applied to two annotated corpora. The findings provided a better detection of the neutral opinions with preserving a substantial overall polarity prediction.
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2024.clicit-1.105
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Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)
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December
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2024
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Pisa, Italy
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Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Rachele Sprugnoli
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CLiC-it
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CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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976–982
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Marco Vassallo, Giuliano Gabrieli, Valerio Basile, and Cristina Bosco. 2024. Neutral Score Detection in Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis: The Quartile-based Approach. In Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), pages 976–982, Pisa, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
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