Creating a Comparative Dictionary of Totonac-Tepehua

Sentiment Analysis of Social Networking Data Using Categorized Dictionary

Sentiment analysis is the process of analyzing a person’s perception or belief about a particular subject matter. However, finding correct opinion or interest from multi-facet sentiment data is a tedious task. In this paper, a method to improve the sentiment accuracy by utilizing the concept of categorized dictionary for sentiment classification and analysis is proposed.  A categorized dictiona...

Dictionary of Abstract and Concrete Words of the Russian Language: A Methodology for Creation and Application

The paper describes the first stage of a project on creating an electronic dictionary with numerical estimates of the degree of abstractness and concreteness of Russian words. Our approach is to integrate data obtained from several different sources: text corpora, psycholinguistic experiments, published dictionaries, markers of abstractness (certain suffixes) and a translation of a similar dict...

A Supervised Method for Constructing Sentiment Lexicon in Persian Language

Due to the increasing growth of digital content on the internet and social media, sentiment analysis problem is one of the emerging fields. This problem deals with information extraction and knowledge discovery from textual data using natural language processing has attracted the attention of many researchers. Construction of sentiment lexicon as a valuable language resource is a one of the imp...

Vowel Length and Coda Cluster Interactions in Misantla Totonac

An Investigation into Bilingual Dictionary Use: Do the Frequency of Use and Type of Dictionary Make a Difference in L2 Writing Performance?

Bilingual dictionary use in L2 writing test performance has recently been the subject of debate. Opinions differ according to how the trait is understood and whether the system favors the process-oriented or product-oriented views towards the assessment and writing skill. Given the need for more empirical support, this study is aimed at investigating the availability of bilingual dictionary use...