An Evaluation of the Brazilian Portuguese LIWC Dictionary for Sentiment Analysis
Pedro Paulo Balage Filho, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Sandra Maria Aluísio · 2013
Abstract. This work presents an evaluation of the Brazilian Portuguese LIWC dictionary for Sentiment Analysis. This evaluation is conducted by comparison against two other sentiment resources for Portuguese language: Opinion Lexicon and SentiLex. We conducted an intrinsic and an extrinsic evaluations and show how LIWC dictionary could be used in sentiment analysis projects. 1.