An experimental evaluation of prior polarities in sentiment lexicons
Citation
Kanburoğlu, A. B. & Solak, E. (2017). An experimental evaluation of prior polarities in sentiment lexicons. Paper presented at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2017, 389-392. doi:10.1109/ICDMW.2017.56Abstract
We present the results of an experiment to assess the validity of prior polarities available in sentiment lexicons. We designed a ranking task that was elicited through pairwise comparisons and compared the results to those predicted by two popular sentiment lexicons. We find that the experiment results show a moderate level of agreement between the lexicons and human judgments.