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The automatic acquisition of a Dutch lexicon for opinion mining
Maks, E.
2018
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Promotor:
prof.dr. P. Vossen Reading committee:
prof.dr. A. Cienki prof.dr. S. Bergler prof.dr. A. van den Bosch prof.dr. W. Martin dr. W. van Atteveldt dr. M. Marx
Copyright: Isa Maks, 2018 Photos: Gert Jan van der Wilt
VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT
The automatic acquisition of a Dutch lexicon
for opinion mining
ACADEMISCH PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad Doctor aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
op gezag van de rector magnificus prof.dr. V. Subramaniam, in het openbaar te verdedigen ten overstaan van de promotiecommissie van de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
op woensdag 27 juni 2018 om 15.45 uur in de aula van de universiteit,
De Boelelaan 1105
promotor: prof.dr. P.T.J.M. Vossen
Contents
1 Introduction 11
1.1 List of publications . . . 16
1.2 Data and software . . . 17
1.3 Main contributions of this thesis . . . 17
2 Models and Resources for opinion mining 19 2.1 Introduction . . . 19
2.2 Resources in opinion mining . . . 20
2.2.1 Appraisal Framework . . . 20
2.2.2 Computational lexicons for general language . . . 22
2.2.2.1 Princeton WordNet (PWN) . . . 22 2.2.2.2 Cornetto . . . 25 2.2.2.3 FrameNet . . . 26 2.2.3 Polarity lexicons . . . 28 2.2.4 Emotion lexicons . . . 30 2.2.4.1 WordNetAffect . . . 30
2.2.5 Lexicons and multiple affect . . . 31
2.2.5.1 WordNetAffectPlus . . . 31
2.2.5.2 +/- Effect WordNet . . . 32
2.2.6 Lexicons with semantic classification . . . 33
2.2.6.1 SentiFul . . . 33
2.2.7 Corpora with annotated opinions . . . 34
2.2.7.1 MPQA opinion corpus . . . 34
2.2.7.2 Asher: opinions in discourse . . . 36
2.2.8 Summary . . . 37
2.2.8.1 Polarity . . . 38
2.2.8.2 Multiple actor attitude . . . 38
2.2.8.3 Semantic classification . . . 40
2.3 Towards a new lexicon model . . . 42
2.3.1 Polarity . . . 42
2.3.2 Multiple actor attitude . . . 43
