A Thesaurus-based Sentiment Lexicon for Danish: The Danish Sentiment Lexicon

Sanni Nimb*, Sussi Olsen*, Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Thomas Troelsgaard

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

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Abstract

This paper describes how a newly published Danish sentiment lexicon with a high lexical coverage was compiled by use of lexicographic methods and based on the links between groups of words listed in semantic order in a thesaurus and the corresponding word sense descriptions in a comprehensive monolingual dictionary. The overall idea was to identify negative and positive sections in a thesaurus, extract the words from these sections and combine them with the dictionary information via the links. The annotation task of the dataset included several steps, and was based on the comparison of synonyms and near synonyms within a semantic field. In the cases where one of the words were included in the smaller Danish sentiment lexicon AFINN, its value there was used as inspiration and expanded to the synonyms when appropriate. In order to obtain a more practical lexicon with overall polarity values at lemma level, all the senses of the lemma were afterwards compared, taking into consideration dictionary information such as usage, style and frequency. The final lexicon contains 13,859 Danish polarity lemmas and includes morphological information. It is freely available at https://github.com/dsldk/danish-sentiment-lexicon (licence CC-BY-SA 4.0 International).
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference : LREC2022
Antal sider7
UdgivelsesstedMarseille
ForlagEuropean Language Resources Association
Publikationsdato20 jun. 2022
Sider2826--2832
StatusUdgivet - 20 jun. 2022

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