The viability of web-derived Polarity Lexicons

This a Paper reviewed for Social Media Analysis 10-802 in Fall 2012.

Citation

 author    = {Leonid Velikovich and
              Sasha Blair-Goldensohn and
              Kerry Hannan and
              Ryan T. McDonald},
 title     = {The viability of web-derived polarity lexicons},
 booktitle = {HLT-NAACL},
 year      = {2010},
 pages     = {777-785},
 ee        = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N10-1119},
 bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}

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The viability of web-derived polarity lexicons

Summary

The authors examine the viability of building large polarity lexicons semi-automatically from the web. They describe a graph propagation approach to build an English lexicon without making use of language dependent resources like Wordnet, POS taggers, etc, as with previous approaches to sentiment analysis. They report a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the derived lexicons and show superior performances to previously studied lexicons.