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General Russian Sentiment Lexicon RuSentiLex 2016

Source: R/hash_rusentilex_2016.R
hash_rusentilex_2016.Rd

The original table of general Russian sentiment lexicon - RuSentiLex, version 2016. Table contains 14487 unique words or phrases, and 13093 has non-neutral sentiment scores.

Usage

data(hash_rusentilex_2016)

Format

A data table with 14487 rows and 6 variables:

token

the textual token (word or phrase)

speech.part

part of speech or type of syntactic group

lemma

initial word (phrase) in a lemmatized form

sentiment

one of positive, negative, neutral or positive/negative (indefinite, depends on the context)

source

opinion, feeling (private state), or fact (sentiment connotation)

ambiguity

if sentiment is different for senses of an ambiguous word, then sentiment orientations for all senses are described, the senses are labeled with the RuThes concept names

Source

https://www.labinform.ru/pub/rusentilex/rusentilex_2016.txt

Details

The lexicon contains the following types of sentiment-related words and phrases:

  • general sentiment (opinionated) words from domain-oriented Russian sentiment lists vocabularies;

  • non-opinionated words with connotations usually convey information about negative or positive phenomena (facts) in social life;

  • slang and curse words from Twitter.

The words in the lexicon having different sentiment orientations in specific senses are linked to appropriate concepts of the thesaurus of Russian language RuThes (https://www.labinform.ru/pub/ruthes/). All lexicon entries are classified according to four sentiment categories and three sources of sentiment (opinion, emotion, or fact).

Based on the RuSentiLex the polarity table with sentiment scores was generated by maintainer of rulexicon package, see hash_sentiment_rusentilex_2016.

License

According to information from Natalya Loukachevitch the lexicon RuSentiLex is published under Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

References

Loukachevitch N., Levchik A., 2016. Creating a General Russian Sentiment Lexicon. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference LREC-2016. URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/285_Paper.pdf

RuSentiLex project web-page: https://www.labinform.ru/pub/rusentilex/index.htm