Word Sense Disambiguation for Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis in Hindi

Abstract

The amount of data from users in Hindi language is tremendously increasing on social media, blogs, online forums due to which Sentiment analysis of Indian languages has turned out to be a predominant research area. Lexicon based analysis is one of the techniques that can be used for analyzing sentiments. While using the lexicon-based sentiment analysis, ambiguous words could be an issue. This paper proposes a graph based Lesk approach to handle the word sense disambiguation issue and tries to enhance and improve the lexicon approach. Experiments performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm shows that the performance of lexicon-based sentiment analysis is increased significantly by using the graph based Lesk approach.