Sentiment and sentimental agent identification based on sentimental sentence dictionary

Abstract

This paper presents a method of sentiment and sentimental agent identification based on Chinese sentimental sentence dictionary. Our method can identify eight kinds of sentiment (including joy, sorrow, love, disgust, surprise, anxiety, anger and hate), and the main sentimental agent. Sentimental sentence dictionary is composed by some sentimental sentence patterns. And the sentiment of a candidate sentence is identified by calculating the consistency with the sentimental sentence patterns. Especially, using the sentimental sentence dictionary, we can get rid of the sentences without sentiment, but have sentimental words. According to sentiment words and expressions, the sentences which are not appeared in the sentimental sentence dictionary also can be identified. The experiments show that we can get precision of 84% for sentiment identification, and precision of 69% for sentimental agent identification.