Sentiment Analysis Dictionaries

I was wondering if anybody knew where I could obtain dictionaries of positive and negative words. I'm looking into sentiment analysis and this is a crucial part of it.


Solution 1:

The Sentiment Lexicon, at the University of Pittsburgh might be what you are after. It's a lexicon of about 8,000 words with positive/neutral/negative sentiment. It's described in more detail in this paper and released under the GPL.

Solution 2:

Sentiment Analysis (Opinion Mining) lexicons

  • MPQA Subjectivity Lexicon
  • Bing Liu and Minqing Hu Sentiment Lexicon
  • SentiWordNet (Included in NLTK)
  • VADER Sentiment Lexicon
  • SenticNet
  • LIWC (not free)
  • Harvard Inquirer
  • ANEW

Sources:

  • Keenformatics - Sentiment Analysis lexicons and datasets (my blog)
  • Hutto, C. J., and Eric Gilbert. "Vader: A parsimonious rule-based model for sentiment analysis of social media text." Eighth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. 2014.
  • Sentiment Symposium Tutorial by Christopher Potts
  • Personal experience

Solution 3:

Arriving a bit late I'll just note that dictionaries have a limited contribution for sentiment analysis. Some sentiment bearing sentences do not contain any "sentiment" word - e.g. "read the book" which could be positive in a book review while negative in a movie review. Similarly, the sentiment word "unpredictable" could be positive in the context of a thriller but negative when describing the breaks system of the Toyota.

and there are many more...

Solution 4:

Professor Bing Liu provide an English Lexicon of about 6800 word, you can download form this link: Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, and Opinion Spam Detection