ANEW+: Automatic Expansion and Validation of Affective Norms of Words Lexicons in Multiple Languages

Samira Shaikh, Kit Cho, Tomek Strzalkowski, Laurie Feldman, John Lien, Ting Liu, George Aaron Broadwell


Abstract
In this article we describe our method of automatically expanding an existing lexicon of words with affective valence scores. The automatic expansion process was done in English. In addition, we describe our procedure for automatically creating lexicons in languages where such resources may not previously exist. The foreign languages we discuss in this paper are Spanish, Russian and Farsi. We also describe the procedures to systematically validate our newly created resources. The main contributions of this work are: 1) A general method for expansion and creation of lexicons with scores of words on psychological constructs such as valence, arousal or dominance; and 2) a procedure for ensuring validity of the newly constructed resources.
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L16-1180
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1127–1132
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Samira Shaikh, Kit Cho, Tomek Strzalkowski, Laurie Feldman, John Lien, Ting Liu, and George Aaron Broadwell. 2016. ANEW+: Automatic Expansion and Validation of Affective Norms of Words Lexicons in Multiple Languages. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 1127–1132, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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ANEW+: Automatic Expansion and Validation of Affective Norms of Words Lexicons in Multiple Languages (Shaikh et al., LREC 2016)
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