Lexicon-based sentiment analysis: Comparative evaluation of six sentiment lexicons

• Main Authors: Khoo, Christopher S. G., Johnkhan, Sathik Basha
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Sentiment analysis; Sentiment categorisation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83570; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42704; https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/DWWEBV
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article introduces a new general-purpose sentiment lexicon called WKWSCI Sentiment Lexicon and compares it with five existing lexicons: Hu & Liu Opinion Lexicon, Multi-perspective Question Answering (MPQA) Subjectivity Lexicon, General Inquirer, National Research Council Canada (NRC) Word-S...