Identifying Emotional and Polar Concepts via Synset Translation (2024.starsem-1)
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| Challenge: | Emotion identification and polarity classification seek to determine sentiment expressed by a writer. |
| Approach: | They propose a translation-based method for labeling each individual word sense and lexical concept into 20 different languages and translate them into multilingual sentiment lexicons. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods and is available on GitHub . it contains 12,429 emotional synsets and 15,567 polar synset. |
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