Hindi Subjective Lexicon: A Lexical Resource for Hindi Adjective Polarity Classification
Akshat Bakliwal, Piyush Arora, Vasudeva Varma · 2012
With recent developments in web technologies, percentage web content in Hindi is growing up at a lighting speed.This information can prove to be very useful for researchers, governments and organization to learn what's on public mind, to make sound decisions.In this paper, we present a graph based wordnet expansion method to generate a full (adjective and adverb) subjective lexicon.We used synonym and antonym relations to expand the initial seed lexicon.We show three different evaluation strategies to validate the lexicon.We achieve 70.4% agreement with human annotators and ∼79% accuracy on product review classification.Main contribution of our work 1) Developing a lexicon of adjectives and adverbs with polarity scores using Hindi Wordnet.2) Developing an annotated corpora of Hindi Product Reviews.