motazsaad/emotion-lexicon

Arabic - English emotion lexicon

emotion-lexicon

Arabic - English emotion lexicon

This is Arabic and English emotion lexicon during the PhD work of [Saad, 2015]. This lexicon is an extension of WordNet-Affect (WNA) emotion lexicon [Strapparava and Mihalcea, 2007], which is a subset of English WordNet. Each entry (synset) in this lexicon is annotated with one of six emotions (anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise), which are considered as the basic human emotions according to the psychological study conducted in [Ekman, 1992].

we manually translated it into Arabic. The Table below describes the English and the Arabic lexicons, where syn is the number of synsets (synonym words are grouped into sets and called synsets), and w is the number of words associated with each emotion label.

Emotion	syn	English w	Arabic w
anger	127	351	748
disgust	19	83	155
fear	82	221	425
joy	227	543	1156
sadness	123	259	522
surprise	28	94	201
Total	606	1551	3207

References

[Saad, 2015] Motaz Saad. Mining Documents and Sentiments in Cross-lingual Context. PhD thesis, Université de Lorraine, January 2015.

[Strapparava and Mihalcea, 2007] Strapparava, C. and Mihalcea, R. (2007). Semeval-2007 task 14: affective text. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, SemEval ’07, pages 70–74, Stroudsburg, PA, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.

[Ekman, 1992] Ekman, P. (1992). An argument for basic emotions. Cognition & Emotion, 6(3-4):169–200.