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 |
[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.